#BREAKING Court upholds Khmer Rouge leader's genocide conviction, life sentence
#UPDATE Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal upholds the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
The court said the 91-year-old was also guilty of multiple crimes against humanity for his role in the genocidal regime
The "killing fields" of the Khmer Rouge
#AFPGraphics showing the extensive network of detention centres and "killing fields" established by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in the 1970s
Cambodia war crimes court upholds genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on Khmer Rouge's last surviving leader.
Khieu Samphan was head of state for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population in less than four years in the 1970s
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal.
#AFPGraphics factfile on Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal and senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime
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