Nuon Chea's death highlights importance of Khmer Rouge Tribunal

There can be no perfect justice for Cambodian genocide, but law helps healing

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Pol Pot's right-hand man Nuon Chea, pictured in February 2008, was finally brought to justice. © Reuters

In July 2006, when I started my service as a U.N. investigator in the Office of Co-Prosecutors at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal, national co-prosecutor Chea Leang pulled me aside one day and, with a look of concern on her face, asked me: "How do you investigate two million murders?"

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