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...five leaders of the Khmer Rouge will face charges in a tribunal backed by the United Nations. The first, Kaing Guek Eav - known better by his nom de guerre, Duch - ran the Tuol Sleng prison camp in Phnom Penh, where out of 17,000 Cambodians who were imprisoned, fewer than 20 survived. Pol Pot's second-in-command, Nuon Chea, will also face charges, as well as the Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister and head of state...
...Duch's trial seemed underwhelming to many people. Not one of more than a dozen people interviewed had tuned in to watch the live television broadcast of the trial's opening salvos, including two women selling entrance tickets to the Tuol Sleng museum, who didn't know that the prison's former director was even standing trial...
...crowded at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday, as scores of foreign tourists visited the gated high school that was once a Khmer Rouge prison and execution center. Meanwhile, in a courtroom in the sprawling outskirts of the city, Tuol Sleng's former chief became the first member of Pol Pot's infamous regime to stand trial for crimes against humanity at the U.N.-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts (ECCC) of Cambodia, more than 30 years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge...
...inclusion of witnesses and other details in the trial that is expected to last about three months. Duch, who is now 66, oversaw Tuol Sleng at the height of the Khmer Rouge regime's brutality in the 1970s, a waifish mathematics teacher turned zealous revolutionary cadre who ran the prison with maniacal attention to the details of the life and death of his prisoners. (Read "A Brief History of the Khmer Rouge...
...busy working to watch," said Klang Sokhan, 62, tending to the small shop opposite Tuol Sleng's gates where she peddles soft drinks and DVD documentaries about the Khmer Rouge to the hordes of tourists that visit the prison each day. "I am interested in the trial," she added, "and if you want to know whether Cambodian people are interested, let [the Khmer Rouge suspects] out of prison to walk down the street. Then there will be a prosecution." (Read TIME's 1979 cover story on the Cambodian genocide...