BBC News
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia has set 17 February as the start date for the long-awaited first trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Comrade Duch - will be the first in the dock, facing charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
He ran Tuol Sleng prison, where detainees were tortured and executed.
As many as two million people are thought to have died during the Khmer Rouge government in the late 1970s.
The process of bringing the regime's leaders to court has suffered years of procedural delays, and no major figures have yet stood trial.
Brutal Khmer Rouge regime
Duch was in charge of the notorious facility known as S-21 or Tuol Sleng, where about 15,000 prisoners were systematically tortured.
Those who survived the ordeal were sent for execution in the so-called "killing fields".
Officials have indicated that Duch cooperated with the investigating judges and is willing to testify in court, so correspondents say the trial should be a chance for survivors of the Khmer Rouge era to hear directly at last from one of the organisation's key figures.
Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Comrade Duch - will be the first in the dock, facing charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
He ran Tuol Sleng prison, where detainees were tortured and executed.
As many as two million people are thought to have died during the Khmer Rouge government in the late 1970s.
The process of bringing the regime's leaders to court has suffered years of procedural delays, and no major figures have yet stood trial.
Brutal Khmer Rouge regime
Duch was in charge of the notorious facility known as S-21 or Tuol Sleng, where about 15,000 prisoners were systematically tortured.
Those who survived the ordeal were sent for execution in the so-called "killing fields".
Officials have indicated that Duch cooperated with the investigating judges and is willing to testify in court, so correspondents say the trial should be a chance for survivors of the Khmer Rouge era to hear directly at last from one of the organisation's key figures.
7 comments:
I would suggest to have this trail recorded in order to share with million victims who used to face this suffer during this regime.
Nothing to be secret, on the other hand, to show our young generation. and make sure this kind of regime will not happen again in our country.
Don't get exited, Folks. This is all Ah Scam Rainxy's tricks and conspiracies to deny Khmer people the justice long overdue. Just watch!
hell yeah no secret! and deal with pouk ah corrupt judges and their masterminds too or this trial is definetely a joke!
also defense lawyer teams of noun chea has initiated a good step by sueing those corrupt judges and hopefully some thing justice, transparency will come up. However, i can expect for sure that cambodia's side or should we call Sok achh side will say that the team is paranoid!
what's new with ah sok achh side?
royal party is die and a dog sihanouk and his family so .
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i think the show must go on because the world need to help cambodia find justice for the millions of KR victims who perished injusticely and to prevent any future like of the KR brutal regime again. god bless cambodia.
what kind of truth and justice victims can expect from murderers? the khmer rouge who hold the power with their viets congs masters today will do anything to clean their crimes and burry the truth!
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