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With his hands raised prayer-like in front of his face in a somphea, the most deferential Cambodian greeting, Kaing Guek Eav didn't look like a man who once governed a prison where some 16,000 men, women and children were imprisoned and later executed. Wearing a white polo shirt and with his graying hair neatly combed, the rail-thin 65-year-old appeared relaxed as he rose, pressed his palms together and addressed the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on Tuesday at the first public hearing of a former member of Pol Pot's brutal regime...
...tribunal?s headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The sense of history was palpable. "I came here because I wanted to know what Duch would say," said Chum Mey, 77, one of only a dozen or so former inmates to emerge alive from Duch?s notorious S-21 prison and torture center. ?If he would admit that he killed people...
...people and confiscating documents connected to planned "democracy seminars", witnesses told a pro-democracy group. Such raids are far from unusual: This year at least a dozen Vietnamese activists have been arrested, most charged with "propaganda against the Socialist Republic," a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison...
...season, Bonds, 43, faced a daunting challenge. The San Francisco Giants finally cut ties with him, and what other team would sign an aging, surly slugger who also breaks records for bad publicity? That should barely stress Bonds now. After all, he faces up to 30 years in prison if he's convicted on all four counts of perjury, plus the obstruction charge. For years, Bonds has pointed out that he has never tested positive for steroids. Yet the indictment states that investigators have found "positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances for Bonds...
...private: that year, Giuliani took in Kerik at Giuliani Partners, the firm the mayor set up to perform security and emergency consulting work for companies and governments around the globe. In addition, Giuliani and Kerik had their own partnership within the partnership, named Giuliani-Kerik, which consulted on prison management, threat assessment and crime reduction...