Khmer Rouge chief ideologue and Pol Pot's right-hand man, Nuon Chea, has been charged with crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-sponsored genocide tribunal.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has had the 82-year old former KR #2 arrested in Pailin. Nuon Chea is the second prominent KR figure charged and arrested, as Kaing Guek Eav (the infamous Duch) has already been detained.
No word on the fate of Khieu Samphan or Ieng Sary, although it's widely speculated both are on the tribunal's list of five names to be charged. The tribunal is going to have to hurry, as both are circling the drain, health-wise.
After YEARS of delays, it's absolutely amazing to see charges finally being filed in Cambodia. Hun Sen has tried his very best to derail the tribunal, but one gets a sense of the importance Cambodians, and the UN for whatever that's worth, place on this process.
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