Anees Ahmed is the United Nations

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 appointed Senior Assistant Prosecutor of
the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) based in Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh

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, Cambodia

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. He is part of
the team of prosecutors in the ongoing trial of Duch, the Commandant of the Tuol Sleng Security Center (S-21) where more than 14000 men, women and children were
tortured and killed during the Khmer Rouge

Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...

 regime. He has also appeared for the prosecution in the cases of Nuon Chea

Nuon Chea

Nuon Chea , also known as Long Bunruot , is a Cambodian former communist politician and former chief ideologist of Khmer Rouge. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two" second in command to Pol Pot who was leader during the Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979...

 and Ieng Sary

Ieng Sary

Ieng Sary was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Khmer Rouge until his defection to the government in 1996....

, the
two senior-most surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge.

Before joining the KRT, Ahmed was a Legal Officer in the Office of the
Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

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. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 where he was a Chevening Scholar. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court of India

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. He lectures regularly on international criminal and human rights laws.