PHNOM PENH: Two former Khmer Rouge leaders Thursday began appeal hearings against their landmark convictions for crimes against humanity last year which saw them handed life sentences by Cambodia’s UN-backed court.
“Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, were the first top leaders of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians to be jailed.
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