Nate Thayer, a reporter for the Far East Economic Review, said that he saw the Khmer Rouge founder brought before a factional tribunal in northern Cambodia on Friday. The elderly architect of the 1970s "Killing Fields" genocide was near tears as a succession of speakers denounced him, Thayer said. The court sentenced him to life in prison.
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Nate Thayer, a reporter for the Far East Economic Review, said that he saw the Khmer Rouge founder brought before a factional tribunal in northern Cambodia on Friday. The elderly architect of the 1970s "Killing Fields" genocide was near tears as a succession of speakers denounced him, Thayer said. The court sentenced him to life in prison.