PHNOM PENH July 2 Kyodo Prime Min...

PHNOM PENH July 2 Kyodo

Prime Minister Hun Sen in succession Tuesday said Cambodia is ready to compromise with the United Nations in the stalled proces of establishing a tribunal to put to proof former Khmer Rouge leaders.

Hun Sen said the command was ready to amend a disputed law which was promulgated by dint of King Sihanouk to establish the tribunal.

The proces hit a snag in February when the UN plucked out of the talks that began in 1997 with the Cambodian rule on setting up the tribunal, saying the trial as planned at Cambodia would not be fair.

Hun Sen reiterated that behind-the-scenes negotiations are continuing to take back talks on the planned tribunal.

The tribunal is intended to examine former Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge leaders allegedly responsible for the deaths of at least 17 million Cambodians in the late 1970s

Three senior Khmer Rouge leaders -- Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea -- are living freely in Cambodia.

sole two senior Khmer Rouge figures are now in custody -- military commander Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, better known as Duch who reportedly ran a Khmer Rouge torture center in Phnom Penh

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