Critics See Politics in Cambodia’s Efforts to Limit Khmer Rouge Trials

Meeting of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal officials. By SETH MYDANS Published: January 31, 2009 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — At first glance it seems to be simply a numbers game: whether to try 5, 10 or more defendants for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge three decades ago. But as a United Nations-backed tribunal prepares to hold its first