March 30th, 2009
World Links: War Crimes Hearings Begin in Cambodia, Police Academy Attacked in Lahore

At least 20 officers and 8 gunmen are killed in a militant attack on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

The 21st Arab League summit opens in Doha, Qatar, with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in attendance, despite the International Criminal Court’s warrant for his arrest.

Hearings begin in the case of the first Khmer Rouge leader to face a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Forces begin moving missile defense equipment to the north in anticipation of North Korea’s test launching of a long-range ballistic missile early next week.

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