Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court gives its final verdict Friday on the Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people, ending the first-ever prosecution for the "Killing Fields" era.
A tourist looks at skulls of Khmer Rouge's victims displayed in a stupa at the site of the former killing field at Choeung Ek in the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court gives its final verdict Friday on the Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people, ending the first-ever prosecution for the "Killing Fields" era.
Hundreds are set to travel to the Phnom Penh-based court to hear whether an appeal bid by Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch -- is successful, or if judges will side with the prosecution and hand down a harsher punishment.
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