He is now preparing to give evidence at the trial of surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Although the trials of former Soviet leaders were widely publicized, the hundreds of thousands of other arrests and executions were not.

Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war.

After World War II the phrase referred usually to the trials of German and Japanese leaders in courts established by the victorious Allied nations.

During the trial of black leaders, the presiding judge was shot in the courtroom, and a gunfight erupted that killed several people.

Sampson Avard became the lead witness for the prosecution in a trial of Joseph Smith and other Mormon leaders.

The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal began the trial of Japanese military and political leaders for war crimes.

The intimidation, the incidents resulting in bloodshed and the staged trials of Hungarian leaders have not been stopped despite the promises of the Serbian Government.

The plan also calls for war-crime trials of Iraqi leaders and a transition to an elected civilian government that could take months or years.