First pictures of Pol Pot to emerge in nearly 20 years

Cambodians See TV "Trial of Pol Pot"

The material - which was shot in the north of the country last Friday - shows Pol Pot being brought before a trial staged by his former comrades.

Pol Pot, who is now seventy-two years old, appears frail and unwell. Together with three of his trusted lieutenants, he is the subject of a cultural revolution-style show trial. Villagers yell at him and he's made to listen as a series of former supporters denounce him.

Finally the presiding officer announces that Pol Pot has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

More than a million people died under Pol Pot's regime

Six weeks ago, Pol Pot was still brother number one, regarded along with Hilter and Stalin as one of the most notorious genocidal leaders of the century. But his attempts to purge the Khmer Rouge of factions seeking alliance with the Cambodian government, rebounded.

He was arrested by his own soldiers and held to account for the deaths of more than a million people during his forty-four months in power.

The video footage may prompt renewed calls for Pol Pot to be brought before an international tribunal. But that is unlikely to because so many senior Cambodian politicians once had links with the Khmer Rouge.