The Khmer Rouge jailer with the blood of thousands of victims on his hands today admitted his guilt in public for the first time.

The long-awaited Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal today wrapped up its opening session with judges saying they still need to finalise the list of witnesses before announcing when the regime’s alleged chief torturer will take the stand.

A notorious torture centre boss went before Cambodia’s genocide tribunal today for its first trial over the deaths of around 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago.