Judge in Khmer Rouge Sentencing Shot to Death
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From Times Wire Reports
A Cambodian judge, who last year sentenced a notorious Khmer Rouge commander to life imprisonment, was shot to death in his car by two men on a motorcycle who pulled up next to him at an intersection, police said.
Judge Sok Setha Mony had sentenced Sam Bith, a former Khmer Rouge provincial chief, to the life term for masterminding the 1994 abduction and murder of three Western tourists.
Sam Bith was one of the highest-ranking members of the genocidal communist regime to be put on trial.
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