Most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been declared fit for trial . Earlier this month , former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary died in Phnom Penh at age 87 , said the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , the U.N.-backed court . Pol Pot was the right-hand man to late Cambodian leader Pol Pot . CNN regime under Nuon Chea blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million people .
Most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been declared fit for trial . Pol Pot was the right-hand man to late Cambodian leader Pol Pot . CNN regime under Nuon Chea blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million people .