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DON PATHAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-07-1999
Khmer Rouge Trial Riles Cambodia

PAILIN, Cambodia (AP) -- The question of whether to prosecute Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide hung over celebrations Thursday marking the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of their brutal regime.

Defeated Khmer Rouge leaders have threatened to resume their guerrilla war if they are put on trial. One former Khmer Rouge general, now governor of the northern city of Pailin, said Thursday that a genocide tribunal would wreck what is now Cambodia's first peace in decades.

``Stop talking about a trial,'' Ee ...

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