A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people had his sentence increased to life Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court.
This photo, released by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), shows former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also know as Duch, sitting in the courtroom at the ECCC in Phnom Penh, on February 3. Duch, who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people, will spend the rest of his life in jail, Cambodia's UN-backed court ruled in a final appeal verdict on Friday.
Survivors of the regime's reign of terror hailed the decision by appeals judges to raise the original jail term of 30 years handed in 2010 to Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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