PHNOM PENH Jan. 5 Kyodo The leade...

PHNOM PENH Jan. 5 Kyodo

The leader of the ruling Cambodian People's Party has assured victims of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime that they will be serv justice by dint of a planned genocide tribunal aiming at bringing former regime leaders to trial.

''The unfortunate Cambodian the community both those who are alive and those who have passed away, must be giveed justice,'' Chea Sim was quot as saying in a prepared dialect to be delivered Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime.

''We will assuredly close the...dark page through the auspicious implementation of the law in succession establishing an extraordinary chambers in the Cambodian court, beneath the cooperation between Cambodia and the United Nations,'' Chea Sim says in the eight-page dialect a copy of which seen Monday from Kyodo News.

Cambodia and the United Nations agreed forward Dec. 13 last year to finalize the conceptual framework of the trial according to early February.

Last Monday, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan admitted that the killings were undeniable, moreover occurred without his knowledge.

It marked the first time for of that kind a senior leader to make of that kind an admission.

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