Monday, 4 February 2008

Nuon Chea's appearance at court hearing

Judges and court officers with the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal attend during a hearing Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. A Cambodian court adjourned a hearing Monday over former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea's appeal against his detention by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal tasked with seeking justice in the communist movement's atrocities in late 1970s. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, POOL)


Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man of the Khmer Rouge regime, sits in a dock during his first public appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 4, 2008. Cambodia's U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal adjourned a bail hearing on Monday for "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea after his Dutch defense lawyer failed to show up. An estimated 1.7 million people were executed or died of torture, disease or starvation under Pol Pot's 1975-79 reign.REUTERS/Heng Sinith/Pool (CAMBODIA)
Chum Mey, left, one of the few survivors who was imprisoned at Tuol Sleng prison by the Khmer Rouge looks on prior to a U.N.-back genocide tribunal Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for Nuon Chea. Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man in the Khmer Rouge, was to attend a hearing on his detention.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Cambodian woman Sok Soul, 68, front, and others wait in line to attend a U.N.-back genocide tribunal Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea. Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man, was arrested for crimes against humanity in 2007 and has been in detention ever since.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Cambodian police look on during a U.N.-back genocide tribunal hearing for former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)
A vehicle transports former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea to a hearing Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was the first time since being arrested on charges of crimes against humanity that Nuon Chea has faced the tribunal.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Cambodian police and soldiers look on outside during a hearing at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea.(AP Photo/David Longstreath

Noun Chea, left, a former Khmer Rouge leader and right hand man to Pol Pot, takes a seat during a hearing Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A Cambodian court adjourned a hearing Monday over former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea's appeal against his detention by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal tasked with seeking justice in the communist movement's atrocities in late 1970s.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith, POOL)

Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man of the Khmer Rouge regime, sits in the dock during his first public appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 4, 2008. Noun Chea stood before the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal on Monday in the second public appearance by a senior Pol Pot cadre. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea's (C) first public hearing before Cambodia's genocide tribunal was postponed Monday amid a row over his legal team, court judges said(AFP/Pool/Tang Chhin Sothy)

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