Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Comrade Duch's excursion day out to Choeung Ek

Cambodian police officers block a road at Choeung Ek killing field in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The former head of a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center was moved to tears Tuesday when he was taken by Cambodia's genocide tribunal to the scene of his alleged crimes, a mass grave site at Choeung Ek, one of the country's notorious 'killing fields.' (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Riot police stand guard while awaiting the arrival of a UN convoy carrying Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, in Choeung Ek, 17 km (11 miles) south of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2008. Duch, who has confessed in interviews with Western reporters that he committed multiple atrocities as head of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, or S-21, interrogation centre, toured the site on Tuesday to re-enact his crimes for a UN-backed court. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Tourists look at a mass grave for Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek, 17 km (11 miles) south of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2008. Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, who has confessed in interviews with Western reporters that he committed multiple atrocities as head of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, or S-21, interrogation centre, toured the site on Tuesday to re-enact his crimes for a UN-backed court. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A UN convoy takes Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, to Choeung Ek, 17 km (11 miles) south of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2008. Duch, who has confessed in interviews with Western reporters that he committed multiple atrocities as head of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, or S-21, interrogation centre, toured the site on Tuesday to re-enact his crimes for a UN-backed court. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A convoy escorts Kaing Guek Eav, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief at Choeung Ek killing field, to the scene of his alleged crimes, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A UN convoy takes Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, to Choeung Ek, 17 km (11 miles) south of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2008. Duch, who has confessed in interviews with Western reporters that he committed multiple atrocities as head of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, or S-21, interrogation centre, toured the site on Tuesday to re-enact his crimes for a UN-backed court. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

so thats why they repaved the road to the killing fields....

Anonymous said...

3:01 AM

They don't paved the road for this particular reason but to serve the interest of people.

Don't you like to see many paved road in Cambodia?

I strongly believed that all Cambodians are in favor of paved roads and if possible even the roads to remote rural areas as well.