PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was supposed to be a model for international justice and national reconciliation: a U.N.-backed tribunal to hold trials on one of the 20th century's grimmest chapters — the Khmer Rouge's murderous 1970s regime in Cambodia.
Eight years after its creation, however, the multinational panel is riven by suspicion, infighting and angry resignations over whether to try more Khmer Rouge defendants on war crimes charges, in addition to the jailer already convicted and four top officials scheduled for trial June 27.
Critics fear the panel is caving to pressure from Cambodia's strongman prime minister — himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre — to quash any …
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