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...other Khmer Rouge victims are participating in the criminal proceedings with their own set of lawyers. On Friday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the tribunal - finished hearing its first case. Prosecutors sought a 40-year jail sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, (pronounced Doik) who ran the notorious S-21 prison, a Phnom Penh high school transformed into an interrogation center where Duch is accused of overseeing the grisly deaths of approximately 15,000 people. Over the last six months of hearings, the court heard accounts of interrogators who ripped...
...Like clean pieces of paper that can be easily written or painted on.' KAING GUEK EAV, chief jailer for the Khmer Rouge, at his U.N. trial, referring to children used as prison guards by the Khmer Rouge...
...Face Of Justice, An Apology The first defendant in a U.N.-backed genocide trial of senior Khmer Rouge officials expressed "heartfelt sorrow" for the torture and killings of some 15,000 people at Tuol Sleng, the notorious prison over which he had presided. But 66-year-old Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, painted himself as a scapegoat for a regime whose rule caused an estimated 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s. If convicted, Duch faces a possible life sentence...
...Cambodia The Khmer Rouge, on Trial at Last More than 30 years after Pol Pot's brutal regime killed an estimated 1.7 million people, the first of its reviled leaders faced genocide charges before a U.N.-backed tribunal Feb. 17. Kaing Guek Eav, 66, known as Duch, ran Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng prison camp, where thousands perished. Four other aged defendants will face charges after Duch; absent is Khmer Rouge mastermind Pol Pot, who died in his jungle redoubt...
...attention to legal procedure as a tribute to Duch’s prisoners, who were never given such an opportunity. There is no way to truly make amends for the cold, calculated murder of one-fourth of a nation’s people. But the trial of Kaing Guek Eav allows at least some measure of justice for the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge...