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Article: Deal Reached on Cambodia Tribunal
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KER MUNTHIT, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-29-2000
Deal Reached on Cambodia Tribunal
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Helped along by a U.S. senator, Cambodia and the United Nations took a big step Saturday toward convening a court to judge Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide.
The tentative agreement on a complete tribunal plan comes after more than a year of haggling over how to bring to justice the top communist guerillas under whose rule 1.7 million Cambodians died in the late 1970s.
``Finally they have agreed, both sides, to exert (their) best efforts to complete all the tasks necessary to be able to have a formal agreement by June 15,'' Sen. John Kerry, who helped broker the deal, ...