Article: Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader

Court upholds life sentence for former DK leader

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's appeal court here on Tuesday upheld the life sentence for a former Democratic Kampuchea (DK) commander for murdering three Western backpackers in 1994.

Appeal court judge Um Sarith insisted on a 2002 lower court decision that 73-year-old DK leader Sam Bith was guilty of masterminding the abduction and murders of Australian David Wilson and Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet.

Bith and his followers ...

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