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Cambodians line up at a court entrance before a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of two surviving leaders Khieu Samphan and Noun Chea, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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Khmer Rouge tribunal readies way for genocide case

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July 30, 2014 4:37 am

FILE - In this March 20, 2012 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, a former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, gestures as testimony is given during his trial at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh. The slow course of justice for the leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime will inch forward again Wednesday, July 30, 2014 as the tribunal holds an initial hearing against a pair of defendants in their 80s facing genocide and other charges. Khmer Rouge head of state, Khieu Samphan, and Nuon Chea, right-hand man to the group's late chief, Pol Pot, are among the few surviving top leaders of the brutal communist group, which was responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths from starvation, exhaustion, disease and execution when it was in power in 1975-79. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng, File)

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Khmer Rouge tribunal to tackle genocide charges

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July 29, 2014 6:14 am