Top Khmer Rouge leader arrested

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PAILIN, Cambodia (AFP) — The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was arrested Wednesday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country's long-delayed genocide trials.

Nuon Chea, now 82 and once the most trusted lieutenant of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, is the first of a small group of former top cadres living freely in Cambodia to be arrested by the new UN-backed tribunal.

An AFP correspondent saw police and court officials take him from his remote home and drive him to a waiting helicopter, which flew him to the capital Phnom Penh to be processed by the fledgling tribunal that will put him on trial.

"He was brought before the office of the co-investigating judges... on execution of an arrest warrant,"...