31 years after Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge followers were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese army, a former Khmer Rouge prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, managed the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, were up to 17,000 people are thought to have died.
Found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal, Duch will face up to 35 years imprisonment. Other Khmer Rouge leaders await trial, including former head of state Khieu Samphan, who helped command the regime which was responsible for an estimated two million deaths between 1975 and 1979.
