The authors explain how, in the late 1990s, the forgotten genocide became thye subject of serious UN inquiry for the first time.Finally, in the 2003, the UN and the Cambodian government agreed to hold a trial in Phnom Penh conducted jointly by international jurists and Cambodian lawyers and judges. Fawthrop and Jarvis reveal why it took 18 years for the UN to recognise the crimes against humani…