The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on April 7announced charges in the next trial of two former Khmer Rouge regimeleaders, including the genocide against Vietnamese people and ethnicMuslims, forced marriages and rape.
The complex case of theregime's two most senior surviving leaders - Nuon Chea, 87 and KhieuSamphan, 82, has been split into a series of smaller trials, initiallyfocusing on the forced evacuation of people into rural labour camps andrelated accusations of crimes against humanity.
The first trial against the two was completed late 2013. Verdicts are due in the first half of 2014.
Inits statement, the ECCC said that their next trial, for which a datehas not yet to be fixed, will cover charges including genocide over theslaughter of Vietnamese people and ethnic Cham Muslims as well as forced marriages and rape.
Italso said other charges relate to crimes at Khmer Rouge labour campsand at four prisons, including the notorious Tuol Sleng known as S-21.
Datafrom the Documentation Centre of Cambodia shows that the estimatednumber of Cham people who died under the Khmer Rouge regime ranges from100,000 to 400,000, but it is not known how many Vietnamese were killed.-VNA