Ailing KRouge leader hospitalised in Cambodia

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PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Ailing Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, whose imminent arrest by Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court is widely expected, was hospitalised Wednesday in Phnom Penh, authorities said.

The Khmer Rouge's former head of state appeared frail as he walked on his own from a vehicle into a building that houses the hospital's CAT Scan machine.

Prime Minister Hun Sen said he ordered the French-educated radical to be flown from his home in the former rebel stronghold of Pailin, in northwest Cambodia, to the capital for treatment after suffering from high blood pressure.

"I have ordered a helicopter to transfer him to hospital," Hun Sen said at a graduation ceremony, adding he did not want the government to be accused of neglecting the health of ailing...