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In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The first Khmer Rouge commander to face a U.N.-backed tribunal was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Monday for overseeing 14,000 deaths in the 1970s, but he'll serve about half that, angering many Cambodians.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The first Khmer Rouge commander to face a U.N.-backed tribunal was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Monday for overseeing 14,000 deaths in the 1970s, but he'll serve about half that, angering many Cambodians.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a former Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for the executions of about 15,000 people during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

In a historic first, a UN-backed court Monday sentenced a former Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for the executions of about 15,000 people during Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era.

A look at who's on trial at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal, 30 years after the regime's fall. The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's main prison and torture facility was convicted Monday of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years in prison, ending the first case before a U.N.-backed tribunal since the regime's fall 30 years ago. Four other former leaders of the regime are awaiting trials, expected to start later this year.

A UN-backed war crimes court on Monday sentenced a former Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in prison for his role in Cambodia's "Killing Fields" atrocities in the late 1970s.

Hundreds of Cambodians turned up to hear the verdict Monday in the war crimes trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief, hoping to see justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities of the 1970s.

Hundreds of Cambodians arrived at a war crimes tribunal Monday for the verdict in the trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief, hoping to see justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities of the 1970s.

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Monday gives its verdict on the Khmer Rouge prison chief, in a step towards justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities more than three decades ago.

Chief of Khmer Rouge's infamous prison awaits verdict in war crimes tribunal. A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal was expected to issue a decision Monday in the trial of the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer and torturer ? the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia's killing fields.

A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal was expected to issue a decision Monday in the trial of the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer and torturer ? the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia's killing fields.

In March 1999 an old man wandered up to an Irish photographer on his day off in a village in Cambodia. It was Duch, the torture chief of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime who many assumed was long dead.

Hav Sophea's father was killed by the Khmer Rouge just after she was born and she's spent a lifetime trying to make him feel real. She even took the single photo she had of him ? a black-and-white mugshot snapped at the regime's notorious prison ? and used a computer to insert him into a family portrait.