Cambodia: UN-backed tribunal ends with conviction upheld for last living Khmer Rouge leader

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Cambodia: UN-backed tribunal ends with conviction upheld for last living Khmer Rouge leader The final Khmer Rouge leader to be prosecuted under a UN-backed special tribunal in Cambodia, has had his 2018 conviction upheld for genocide and crimes against humanity, committed during the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge during the late 1970s, during which nearly a quarter of the country’s population was killed.