The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: A former Khmer Rouge chief who presided over a torture center spent his first night in a detention cell after judges of the Cambodian genocide tribunal charged him with crimes against humanity, a tribunal spokesman said Wednesday.
"He was placed in a detention room last night. He is the first occupant to occupy that new detention facility after he was charged by the co-investigating judges," Reach Sambath, the spokesman, said Wednesday.
Duch, 62, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, a virtual slaughterhouse where some 16,000 suspected enemies of the regime were tortured before being taken out to what later became known as "killing fields" near the city. He was charged Tuesday.
"Today, 31 July 2007, the Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia have charged KAING GUEK EAV alias DUCH for crimes against humanity and have placed him in provisional detention," said a tribunal statement issued Tuesday night. It gave no other details, but suggested that more information might be released Wednesday.
Duch, whose formal name also has been transliterated as Kaing Khek Iev, was one of five top Khmer Rouge figures whose indictments were recommended this month by prosecutors of the tribunal, which is a mixed body of Cambodian and international jurists. The judges have not yet released the names of the four others.
Duch had been detained at a Phnom Penh military prison on war crimes charges filed by the government since his arrest May 1999.
At dawn on Tuesday, government security personnel drove him out of the prison to the tribunal for questioning by the judges, making him the first suspect to face the tribunal.
Reach Sambath said Duch "worked very hard" during the questioning by the judges in an air-conditioned room Tuesday and "he is taking a rest today."
The spokesman said there was no air conditioning in the Duch's cell, but added that the detention center was "built as an international standard-style facility, with proper ventilation, good light for both day and night."
Duch's current provisional detention will last up to one year and can be extended for another year if judges uncover new crimes to implicate him with during their investigation, Reach Sambath said.
"He was placed in a detention room last night. He is the first occupant to occupy that new detention facility after he was charged by the co-investigating judges," Reach Sambath, the spokesman, said Wednesday.
Duch, 62, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, a virtual slaughterhouse where some 16,000 suspected enemies of the regime were tortured before being taken out to what later became known as "killing fields" near the city. He was charged Tuesday.
"Today, 31 July 2007, the Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia have charged KAING GUEK EAV alias DUCH for crimes against humanity and have placed him in provisional detention," said a tribunal statement issued Tuesday night. It gave no other details, but suggested that more information might be released Wednesday.
Duch, whose formal name also has been transliterated as Kaing Khek Iev, was one of five top Khmer Rouge figures whose indictments were recommended this month by prosecutors of the tribunal, which is a mixed body of Cambodian and international jurists. The judges have not yet released the names of the four others.
Duch had been detained at a Phnom Penh military prison on war crimes charges filed by the government since his arrest May 1999.
At dawn on Tuesday, government security personnel drove him out of the prison to the tribunal for questioning by the judges, making him the first suspect to face the tribunal.
Reach Sambath said Duch "worked very hard" during the questioning by the judges in an air-conditioned room Tuesday and "he is taking a rest today."
The spokesman said there was no air conditioning in the Duch's cell, but added that the detention center was "built as an international standard-style facility, with proper ventilation, good light for both day and night."
Duch's current provisional detention will last up to one year and can be extended for another year if judges uncover new crimes to implicate him with during their investigation, Reach Sambath said.
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English proverb: Truth will out. (The truth always becomes known.)
All Killing Fields were secretly created by Vietnamese/Yavana secret agents/spies in order to erase all Cambodian race on earth. They have secretly been killing Cambodian people since 18th Century up until now. Read Khmer History of Tae Ong.
Murderous Hanoian commo leaders who are so cunning didn't want themselves to get caught in action so they used their Yuon/Yavana citizens, who used to live in Cambodia before 1970, are well-educated in Khmer language, culture, tradition, custom, and religion...etc. to have impersonated themselves as the Khmer Rouge soldiers to brutally kill Cambodian innocent people.
Now there are more than 4000 000 illegal Yuon citizens living in Cambodia so far so worse, many of whom are former Khmer Rouge soldiers/killers.
Hanoi commo leaders from now on in a big trouble when all Khmer Rouge leaders are put on trial with the UN in Phnom Penh. My Khmer compatriots, you will take revengeful action against Yuon citizens living in Cambodia. And Murderous Hanoi leaders will secretly order their secret agents to kill Khmer Krom people in revengeful nammer.
Trust in Lord Buddha!
Khmer Sralanh Khmer/Khmer love Khmer!
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