The United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Friday convicted two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders — Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan — to life imprisonment for genocide in case 002/02.

Judge Nil Nonn said that Chea, 92, former deputy secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and Samphan, 87, former head of state, were sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of executing ethnic Vietnamese and Cham, as well as committing rape, forced marriage and religious prohibition.

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