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Why might a genocide verdict in Cambodia be the last of its kind?

FOUR DECADES AFTER THE VICIOUS EXTERMINATION led by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime killed 1.7 million people—a fifth of the country’s population—and harmed countless others, some justice is finally being served. On Nov. 16, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid bench

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