Nuon Chea: Khmer Rouge 'were not bad people'
Pol Pot's deputy has told a court the Khmer Rouge were not "bad people", blaming deaths of Cambodians under the Maoist regime on neighbouring Vietnam.
Nuon Chea made the comments at his genocide trial at a UN-backed court in Phnom Penh.
It is the first time he has faced questioning over his role in the regime's four-year rule, which left as many as two million Cambodians dead.
His trial began last month, only the second at the court.
Guy Delauney reports from Phnom Penh.
05 Dec 2011
- From the section Asia