Day in court: Khieu Samphan sitting in a courtroom during a hearing at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh. — AP
The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader 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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