The Killing Fields execution site and two former Khmer Rouge prisons added to Unesco heritage list

The three Cambodian sites' inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regime

Three locations used by Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to its world heritage list.

The three locations were inscribed to the list by the UN cultural agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.