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Salaries as elusive as justice at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trial

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian staff at a Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal have gone two months without pay and are threatening a walkout amid a deepening funding crisis at a court already bogged down by resignations and the ill health of its elderly defendants. Some 270 Cambodians have not been paid since November and are working at the U.N.-backed court without contracts, caught up in a standoff between donors and a government criticized for its lack of support for hearings into one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Between 1.7 and 2. ...

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