Khmer Rouge Tribunal Convicts Two of Genocide and Winds up its Operations

On November 16, 2018, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT), handed down a guilty verdict against the two surviving senior leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, which ruled Cambodia from April 17, 1975 to January 7, 1979.