It was the first verdict for the countrys U.N.backed tribunal, three decades after the Khmer Rouge killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians from starvation, medical neglect, slavelike working conditions and execution.

The groups top leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998 and four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders are awaiting trial

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