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Cambodian killing fields bones to stay on display
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen says the bones of thousands of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime will remain on display in genocide museums rather than being cremated.
Hun Sen says mountains of human skulls, which for decades have symbolised the 1975-1979 "killing fields", will be kept as evidence of atrocities and as sites of religious worship to the dead.
On Monday, Cambodia commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime during which an estimated 1.7 million people died from disease, starvation and execution.
The Cambodian government and the United Nations are now negotiating the setting up of a long-awaited tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.
10/01/2002 1:21:43 PM | ABC Radio Australia News
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