skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

A man shows the skulls of Khmer Rouge victims to a boy in Tuolsleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Funding for a UN-backed international tribunal to try surviving Khmer Rouge leaders is almost secured, but as the clock ticks likely defendants are ageing while many question the court's form and utility.

Some top Cambodian officials are privately reluctant about the trial of those responsible for the Khmer Rouge's totalitarian rule that oversaw the deaths of up to two million, fearing revelations about their own pasts.