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A former Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of about 15,000 people will spend the rest of his life in jail, Cambodia’s UN-backed court has ruled in a final appeal verdict.

“The Supreme Court Chamber decides to impose a sentence of life imprisonment against Kaing Guek Eav,” said Kong Srim, president of the court’s highest appeal body, on Friday.

Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in 2010 for crimes against humanity, and war crimes, over the torture and deaths of thousands of people at the notorious S-21 prison in the late 1970s.

“The crimes by Kaing Guek Eav were undoubtedly among the worst in recorded human history.

They deserve the highest penalty available,” Kong Srim said.

Led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for what has become known as Cambodia’s “killing fields”, which wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population through starvation, overwor