Khmer Rouge jailer faces 19 years for 16,000 dead

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A war crimes tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer on Monday to a prison term that will see him serve less than half a day for every person killed at the torture center he commanded.

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