Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Sentenced To 35 Years Imprisonment:Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek EAV, who participated in the torture and murder of his brother Rob Hamill in Kiwi, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.The convictions were handed down in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the UN backed war crimes tribunal in the afternoon.
EAV is also known as Duch, was the first of five senior Cambodian Khmer Rouge leaders be tried for participation in the genocide in 1970, New Zealand Herald reports.
More than 1.7 million people, a quarter of Cambodia's population died from starvation, disease, torture and executions.
New Zealand rower Rob Hamill, who lost his brother during the reign of the Khmer Rouge regime was in the courtroom in Phnom Penh today to hear the historical verdict.
Kerry Hamill was one of three foreigners captured when their boat was blown off course in Cambodian waters in 1978. All of them were tortured and killed.
