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(13 Jun 2007) FILE: Kampot Province - 20 May 2007 1. Various of bones being piled up in village collected from mass graves dating from Khmer Rouge time FILE: Near Phnom Penh - 1975 2. Various of Cambodian government armoured vehicles repelling an attack by the Khmer Rouge FILE: location unknown - Approximately 1978 3. Wide of huge agricultural project underway in Cambodia during Khmer Rouge rule FILE: location unknown - Approximately 1978 4. Cambodian workers walking past camera FILE: Tonle Bati - 1998 5. Various of skulls of people who died under Khmer Rouge rule FILE: Anlong Veng - April 1998 6. Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot's body laid out as medical officials moves his head FILE: Pailin - 3 July 2003 7. Pol Pot's deputy, Nuon Chea, sitting down wearing sunglasses FILE: Anlong Veng - 1998 8. Former titular head of Khmer Rouge, Khieu Samphan, talking to camera FILE: Phnom Penh - 3 July 2006 9. Brahmin priests blow conch shells as part of ritual to swear-in the judges for the tribunal, at a ceremony at the Royal Palace 10. Wide pan of judges after swearing-in ceremony FILE: Outskirts of Phnom Penh - March 2007 11. Various exterior shots of location of tribunal 12. UN and Cambodian flags flying FILE: Outskirts of Phnom Penh - July 2006 13. Wide pan of interior of courtroom where the trials will be held FILE: Phnom Penh - 4 June 2007 14. Various of exterior of Le Royal Hotel where crucial plenary meeting was held to decide on the internal rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which is intended to put on trial former leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime 15. Various of international judges being sworn in 16. Wide of meeting with Cambodian and international judges sitting around a table STORYLINE: Cambodian and international judges announced guiding rules for a UN-backed genocide trial on Wednesday, putting aside the last major roadblock to much-delayed trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders. The rules were unanimously agreed to on Tuesday after two weeks of meetings between Cambodian and foreign judges. That followed six months of sometimes-rancorous disagreement about how to proceed with the judicial process, the judges told a joint news conference in the Cambodian capital. Kong Srim, a Cambodian judge with the UN-backed genocide tribunal, said now that the rules had been adopted they could move foreward. He said the co-investigating judges would begin the judicial process as soon as they received their first case from the co-prosecutors. Co-prosecutor Robert Petit said that should be with weeks. The announcement should please survivors of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, who have waited so long for justice that many have doubted that a trial would ever take place. Many also fear that the aging defendants could die before being brought to justice. Reminders of the dark days under the Khmer Rouge are never far from the surface in Cambodia; sometimes they reappear to haunt anew. Earlier this year in Kampot province, a cluster of mass graves was uncovered. The pits yielded bones and rotting clothing. Researchers think up to a thousand victims lie there. The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, after a brutal civil war. But if the conflict was bloody, it was nothing compared to the years that followed. The fanatical communists transformed Cambodia into a vast labour camp, forcing almost the entire population to work the land. As the agrarian experiment failed their paranoia increased, and they eliminated so-called enemies by the hundreds of thousands. Arrests of potential defendants could also follow during that period. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...