Khmer Rouge ideologue cremated, appeal may be stopped

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A spokesman for Cambodia’s U.N.-assisted Khmer Rouge tribunal says the death of the defunct communist group’s ideologue may end criminal proceedings against him even though his appeal against convictions for genocide and other crimes is still pending.
Nuon Chea, the second-highest official after Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot when the group held power in the late 1970s, died Sunday at age 93. He was cremated Friday at a Buddhist temple in northwestern Ca