PHNOM PENH (AP)--Cambodia's U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal is seeking to triple its budget to US$170 million in order to keep operating through March 2011, a tribunal spokesman said Thursday.
The request for an increase from the originally budgeted US$56.3 million was made to donor nations Jan. 30 in New York, spokesman Peter Foster said.
The Khmer Rouge are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians when in power from 1975-1979.
The tribunal, which opened its offices in early 2006 after years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the U.N., took five former top leaders of the Khmer Rouge into custody last year and hopes to begin their trials later this year.
The request for an increase from the originally budgeted US$56.3 million was made to donor nations Jan. 30 in New York, spokesman Peter Foster said.
The Khmer Rouge are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians when in power from 1975-1979.
The tribunal, which opened its offices in early 2006 after years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the U.N., took five former top leaders of the Khmer Rouge into custody last year and hopes to begin their trials later this year.
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