Digital africa starts december twelfth on t w. This is d w news coming to you live from berlin a course in cambodia makes it historic ruling forty years after their crimes were committed to leaders of the brutal camilla rouge are found guilty of genocide and two men are on trial in connection with the deaths of nearly two Million People during the regimes Reign Of Terror in the one Nine Hundred Seventy s. Britain faces another day of turmoil as Prime Minister theresa may takes to the
airwaves to try to save both her controversial rights to deal and her own political future. Plus the number of missing after wildfires in california soars to more than six hundred more than sixty or conform to. A one time march and welcome to the program its been nearly forty years since the camero rouge murdered nearly two Million People in cambodia a quarter of the countrys population but today for the first time a un by court in the capital phnom penh found two of the regimes leaders guilty of genocide
a committee rouge leaders known share and kiff samphan are sentenced to life in prison for genocide by a un backed quote. from home. but the chamber has considered the gravity of the crimes including the scale of brutality the number and the vulnerability of the victims for which the accused have been convicted. these two old men the last surviving leaders of the committee rouge already serving life sentences for crimes against humanity but this new verdict is a landmark ruling for the first time it says that the crimes against cambodians vietnamese and cham minorities amounted to genocide delivery of the judgment today in phase two zero zero is in historic achievement in the work of the extraordinary chambers in the courts of. this court is once again demonstrated that he has the capacity to prosecute and try the most complex cases in accordance with