This handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on August 16, 2021 shows former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in the dock during an appeal against life imprisonment for his role in the genocide committed by the regime, at the ECCC in Phnom Penh. - AFP
Phnom Penh, Aug 17, 2021 (AFP): The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader on Monday (Aug 16) began an appeal against his life imprisonment for his role in the genocide committed by the regime in Cambodia more than four decades ago.
The brutal communist group, led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot, left two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions from 1975 to 1979.
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