61. Such show trials are common as authorities battle a crime wave sparked by rising unemployment and looser social controls. 62. The Beijing court appointed Xu a lawyer, but his wife, He Xintong, said it was a formality in what she expected to be a show trial. 63. Thayer captured international attention during June when he witnessed a show trial of Pol Pot carried out by the guerillas he had led for three decades. 64. The charges were never proven, though Ranariddh was found guilty in a show trial in March as a condition to be allowed to return from exile. 65. The execution provoked a rebellion by comrades who eventually put Pol Pot through a show trial and sentenced him to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. 66. The last few thousand Khmer Rouge guerrillas put their notorious leader, Pol Pot, through a show trial last month to make themselves more acceptable to world opinion. 67. The Japanese plan allowed Ranariddh to be convicted in show trials of arms smuggling and plotting his own coup with the Khmer Rogue. 68. The proceedings had the trappings of a show trial. 69. The prince was tried in absentia in a show trial as part of a complicated deal to allow him to return. 70. The sentence came after a two-day show trial in July of that year. |
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