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First Khmer Rouge trial begins

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The UN-backed trial of a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia has opened in Phnom Penh, 30 years after the regime fell.

Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - was head of a notorious prison camp and is accused of presiding over the murder and torture of at least 15,000 inmates.

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