PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's top surviving Khmer Rouge leaders refused to admit guilt Thursday at the end of a two-year trial billed as a chance for reconciliation, angering victims of the brutal regime.
Prosecutors are demanding life imprisonment for "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan for the "Killing Fields" era atrocities, which left up to two million people dead in the late 1970s.
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