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Hope Stevens was the self-described "Co-chairperson of the National Conference of Black Lawyers of the United States and Canada" who appeared as the defense counsel during the in absentia trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary by the Vietnamese-backed Heng Samrin's People's Republic of Kampuchea in Phnom Penh in 1979[1]. Stevens belonged to the New York branch of the Association of Democratic Lawyers[2].
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- ↑ Shawcross, William (1984). The Quality of Mercy - Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience. Simon and Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-671-44022-5.
- ↑ Dr. Gregory H. Stanton (1992). in Kiernan, Ben: The Cambodian Genocide and International Law.
