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He returned two years later when the Vietnamese army entered Cambodia and deposed the Khmers Rouges.
UN, which finally brought about the demise of the Khmers Rouges in 1998, by then an enfeebled bunch of guerrillas.
So, argues Mr Hun Sen, it should be up to Cambodia's courts to put the captured Khmers Rouges on trial.
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The United States suggested something along these lines last year, confining the tribunal's scope to acts committed from 1975 to 1979, the years the Khmers Rouges held power.
On January 6th, 21 years almost to the day after the Khmers Rouges were overthrown by an invading Vietnamese army, the Cambodian cabinet agreed on draft proposals for the trial.
An opinion poll by an organisation said to have links with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party found that more than 80% of Cambodians want the Khmers Rouges' leaders to face prosecution.
Mr Hun Sen, who was himself once in the Khmers Rouges as a low-level commander, has been reluctant to bring members of the regime to trial, for fear, he says, of destabilising Cambodia.
ECONOMIST: Justice is slow to catch up with the former Khmers Rouges
But Ta Mok's death and a stroke just suffered by Khieu Samphan, once the Khmers Rouges' head of state, is a poignant reminder that justice is more than ever a race against time.
Even now, though, it is unclear who will face trial in connection with the 1.7m people who died from starvation, overwork, disease and execution when the Khmers Rouges ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
ECONOMIST: Justice is slow to catch up with the former Khmers Rouges
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When United Nations peacekeepers arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s, it was reckoned that about 10m mines had been laid during the years of conflict involving the Khmers Rouges, the Phnom Penh government and Vietnam.
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