PHNOM PENH Feb 26 Kyodo The bare...

PHNOM PENH Feb 26 Kyodo

The barely senior Khmer Rouge figures now in custody and awaiting trial, Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, have the two been given an additional year of pretrial detention, a military court official told Kyodo novels on Thursday.

Ngin Sam An, an investigating connoisseur said he signed a alphabetic character of extension Sunday for former Khmer Rouge military leader Ta Mok 77 and Kaing Khek Ieu, better known as Duch who ran a Khmer Rouge torture center in Phnom Penh

Ta Mok 77 and Duch 62 have the one and the other been in jail since 1991 charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.

The United Nations and Cambodia began negotiations in 1997 forward bringing to justice surviving former Khmer Rouge leaders held responsible for the deaths of at least 17 million clan from 1975 to 1979

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is look fored to appeal next month for stores and other assistance for the mixed Cambodia-U.N. tribunal, for which no date has been set

A UN team is to be paid to visit Cambodia again March 10 upon a one-week mission to finalize expenditure estimates and other technical arrangements.

Three other top Khmer Rouge figures -- Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea -- are living freely in Cambodia.

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