Fireworks light up cremation of Khmer Rouge's chief ideologue

Pailin, Cambodia, Aug 9 (EFE).- Fireworks cracked through the sky as smoke billowed from a cremation pyre holding the body of the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologue, who was handed two life sentences in his sunset years for committing genocide and crimes against humanity, thus bringing his five-day funeral to an end on Friday in Cambodia's Pailin province.