Khmer Rouge jailer Duch’s sentence increased by Cambodia court

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Khmer Rouge jailer Duch’s sentence increased by Cambodia court

Kaing Guek Eav given life after both sides appealed against 35-year term for ‘killing fields’ slaughter of 12,000 peopleThe Khmer Rouge tribunal’s supreme court has ordered the regime’s chief jailer to serve out the rest of his life in prison because of his “shocking and heinous” crimes against the Cambodian people. The surprise ruling increased a lower court’s 19-year sentence against which prosecutors had appealed as too lenient and by the convicted man as too harsh.