Top Khmer Rouge leader arrested

November 19, 2007

The 78-year-old French-educated guerrilla leader was whisked from a Phnom Penh hospital by police convoy to the tribunal compound to face a panel of investigating judges probing one of the 20th century's darkest chapters. Roughly a quarter of the Cambodian population perished during the Khmer Rouge's four year reign of terror, which began in the mid-1970s and only ended when neighbouring Vietnam invaded to topple the regime.