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.

Nuon Chea is being tried alongside Khieu Samphan, the Khmer Rouge's former head of state, and Ieng Sary, its former foreign minister.      More Read