U.N.-backed court rules Khmer Rouge leaders committed genocide

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide on Friday, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the "Killing Fields" was overthrown.

Most of the victims of the 1975-79 regime died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labour camps or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions.