Nearly two million people died of starvation and overwork or were executed under the reign of Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked the United Nations to renounc its past relations with the Khmer Rouge.
Hun Sen made the statement while inaugurating the student building that in the past, the UN supported the Khmer Rouge, but now it will try the regime's surviving leaders in court.Further added UN has never said its past policy to allow Khmer Rouge leaders to represent Cambodia at the United Nations was wrong.
The joint Cambodian UN tribunal established in July 2006 after nearly a decade of negotiations between Cambodia and the UN,seeks to prosecute crimes committed by senior Khmer Rouge leaders.
United Nations still allowed the regime to represent the country before the world body.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen here on Wednesday criticized the current UN human rights envoy to Cambodia Yash Ghai and proposed to Secretary-General Ban Kim-moon that he should be replaced.
Yash Ghai on Monday attended a ceremony in Phnom Penh to mark the International Human Rights Day and released a statement claiming that Cambodian citizens live in fear of land grabbing, repression and a court system which offers scant hope of justice, with international donors seemingly turning a blind-eye.
This person didn't say the positive signs in Cambodia but only the negative signs," Hun Sen said.
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