Former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan (left) and Nuon Chea are accused of genocide.
The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime are to begin their second trial in Phnom Penh.
Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, and Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s deputy, are already on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The second trial includes a charge of genocide related to killings of Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minorities.
The cases are being tried separately to accelerate proceedings, because the defendants are elderly.
A verdict in the first case, meanwhile, is expected on 7 August. Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the two former leaders.
The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for four years, from 1975 to 1979. Up to two million people are thought to have died of starvation, overwork or by execution under the brutal Maoist regime.
Leader Pol Pot died in 1997 and only one senior official – former prison chief Duch – has been convicted and jailed for crimes committed by the regime.
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