ECCC Sentences Khmer Rouge Leaders to Life in Prison (August 7, 2014) [1]
On August 7, 2014, the Trial Chamber of the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (the Court) found [3] Nuon Chea and Kieu Samphan, leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, guilty of crimes against humanity committed between April 1975 and December 1977 and sentenced them to life in prison. According to the press release [4], the Court found that both Nuon Chea and Kieu Samphan “were, through their participation in the joint criminal enterprise, found to have committed the crimes against humanity of murder, political persecution and other inhumane acts [. . .]; political persecution and other inhumane acts [. . .]; and murder and extermination through executions of Khmer Republic officials at Tuol Po Chrey.” In referencing the victims of the crimes, the Court also “endorsed the implementation of 11 reparation projects that have been designed to appropriately acknowledge the harm suffered by Civil Parties as a result of the commission of the crimes at issue.”