Britain hails jailing of KRouge fighters over Cambodia murder (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) - Britain welcomed Tuesday the jailing in Cambodia of four former Khmer Rouge guerrillas over the kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearer and his translator in 1996. Three men were jailed for 20 years and a fourth for 10 years, a decade after a joint British-Cambodian investigation into the killing of Christopher Howes and translator Huon Huot. "I welcome the guilty verdicts and sentences handed down today by a Cambodian court in the trial of those responsible," said junior foreign minister Bill Rammell. "The verdict brings to an end 12 years of uncertainty for their families," he added. Howes and Huon Huot were shot a few days after they were seized near the famed Angkor Wat temples in northwest Cambodia. At the time the communist Khmer Rouge were battling government troops towards the end of Cambodia's... [read full story]