PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict on Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime's last surviving leader.

The tribunal was ruling on an appeal by Khieu Samphan, head of state for the murderous communist regime that wiped out a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than four years in the 1970s.

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