Sentence examples for rouge figures from inspiring English sources

That ignorance — among both young and older — seems also to embrace the trials of five major Khmer Rouge figures that began last month, a process that is meant, in part, to begin a process of healing and closure.

Several other major Khmer Rouge figures have died, including the supreme leader, Pol Pot, in 1998 – a factor that only adds to the pressure on the tribunal to expedite proceedings against the four indicted today.

Duch is one of five major Khmer Rouge figures who have been arrested and charged by a special tribunal in the past four months after decades of delays caused by war, politics and disputes over legal sovereignty.

This week Phnom Penh is witnessing the unnerving spectacle of two of the key Khmer Rouge figures, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, welcomed in from the cold by Prime Minister Hun Sen, enjoying the comforts of a luxury hotel and planning a trip to a beach resort.

PAGE A10 CLAIMS CLOUD KHMER ROUGE TRIALS Even as the trials of five leading Khmer Rouge figures in Cambodia gain momentum with compelling testimony from the former regime's chief torturer, accusations of corruption among the tribunal staff have slowed the international financing that keeps the process alive.

Trials are finally expected to start sometime this year for five major Khmer Rouge figures who were detained and will face a special tribunal backed by the United Nations, but many of New York's dwindling number of Cambodians are focusing on more immediate problems.

On Monday, Cambodia took a significant step toward addressing its harsh past with the first conviction of a major Khmer Rouge figure in connection with the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979.

Duch has been the only major Khmer Rouge figure in custody, in a military jail in Phnom Penh on separate charges, since 1999 when a British photographer discovered him in rural Cambodia.

Mr. Nuon Chea is the second major Khmer Rouge figure arrested, seven weeks after the tribunal charged Kaing Guek Eav, 64, known as Duch, who was the commandant of the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, where at least 14,000 people died.

The ruling by a UN-backed tribunal marked the first trial of a major Khmer Rouge figure more than three decades after the regime's brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people from execution, disease, starvation and overwork.

Prosecutors hope charges will also soon be brought against four other Khmer Rouge leaders.Some Khmer Rouge figures have been living in tranquil liberty since reaching an accord in the 1990s with Hun Sen, Cambodia's long-serving prime minister.