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Former Khmer
Rouge leaders 'Brother Number Two' Nuon Chea (left) and Khieu Samphan (right)
have been given life sentences for crimes against humanity
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Thirty-five years after the genocidal rule of
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two
top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for 'extermination, inhumane
acts and attacks against human dignity', Agency sources are reporting.
The regime's 1970s terror period left close to two
million people dead.
The
historic verdicts were announced against Khieu Samphan, the regime's
83-year-old former head of state, and Nuon Chea, its 88-year-old chief
ideologue - the only two surviving leaders of the regime left to stand trial.
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