On Monday, officials from Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal traveled to New York to request close to $114 million in additional funds at the United Nations for trying the the Khmer Rouge's surviving leaders.
According to the tribunal, the original budget of $56.3 million had greatly underestimated the costs. They had relaid to donor countries that their need would reach $170 million. During the Khmer Rouge's rule from 1975-1979 they were allegedly responosible for the deaths of around 1.7 million Cambodians. To this day, none of it's senior leaders have been tried.
The tribunal started office in the beginning of 2006. The allotted funds for the tribunal at this moment are foreseen to run short by the end of 2008. There are five former senior Khmer Roughe leaders awaiting trial, detained after having been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Major donors to the tribunal include: Germany, Japan, France, Britain and Australia.
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