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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A United Nations-backed war-crimes tribunal trying top leaders of the Khmer Rouge announced Thursday that one of the four defendants, a sister-in-law of the group’s leader Pol Pot, is unfit to stand trial and should be unconditionally released because she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
Ieng Thirith, 79, was minister for social affairs for the Khmer Rouge, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979.
