Abstract/Sommario: A special court hands down the first-ever judicial verdict on the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Kaing Guek Eav, the chiefs of S-21, a security centre used as a prison and a killing field between 1975 and 1979, was convicted for his supervisory and participatory role in the mass executions. The Khmer Rouge Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, was handed a 35-year prison sentence