PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's United Nations-backed war crimes court gives its final verdict on Friday on the Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people, ending the first-ever prosecution for the 'Killing Fields' era.
Hundreds are set to travel to the Phnom Penh-based court to hear whether an appeal bid by Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - is successful, or if judges will side with the prosecution and hand down a harsher punishment.
The historic verdict will also be broadcast live on television across a country still haunted by the brutality of the blood-soaked 1975 to 1979 regime, which wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population.
Duch was sentenced to 30 years in 2010 over his role as head of the feared S-21 prison where starving inmates suffered horrific abuse, including electric shocks and having their finger nails pulled out.
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