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Cambodia delays release of Khmer Rouge ‘First Lady’

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Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge court Friday delayed freeing the regime’s former “First Lady”, who has dementia, after prosecutors requested tighter conditions for the genocide suspect’s release. The UN-backed tribunal ruled on Thursday that the 80-year-old Ieng Thirith, who experts say suffers from Alzheimer…

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