Khmer rouge

CAMBODIA (GaeaTimes.com) - Duch, former Khmer Rouge prison chief was sentenced to 35 years in jail by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to 35 years for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people - the first verdict involving a senior member of the "killing fields" regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians.