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Article: Cambodia tribunal faces cash crisis.
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- Aljazeera.net
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- June 24, 2008
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6/24/2008 4:17:32 AM
The special tribunal set up to try former members of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government is due to announce a new budget it hopes will see it through a financial crisis.
The United Nations-backed tribunal is preparing to bring to trial five former Khmer Rouge leaders, but those trials will not go ahead unless more cash is found.
The original budget was $56m spread over three years.
But costs have ballooned andndash; in part due to the sheer volume of pre-trial hearings, presided over by a team of five judges.
Up to two million Cambodians died during the Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia in the late 1970s, but none of the group's leaders has ...