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The first hearing of this Cambodian court, a hybrid national/international tribunal set-up in 2004, was held in Phnom Penh on 17 February 2009. The accused was Kaing Guek Eav, alias ‘Duch’, indicted for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, in addition to the offences of homicide and torture under Cambodian criminal law. His crimes, and generally those of the Khmer Rouge regime, caused the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians — out of a population of 7.3 to 7.9 million in 1975 — in the period from 1975 to 1978, through torture, starvation, diseases and massacres.
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Beigbeder, Y. (2011). The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. In: International Criminal Tribunals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305052_7
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