Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Public attendance at Comrade Duch's trial

Cambodians gather Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, outside the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as the first day of a U.N.-backed tribunal was set to get underway. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, went before Cambodia's genocide tribunal Tuesday for its first trial over the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Cambodians gather in Phnom Penh Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, outside the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as the first day of a U.N.-backed tribunal was set to get underway. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, went before Cambodia's genocide tribunal Tuesday for its first trial over the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Cambodians gather in Phnom Penh Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, outside the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as the first day of a U.N.-backed tribunal was set to get underway. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, went before Cambodia's genocide tribunal Tuesday for its first trial over the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Cambodian monks walk by the detention center where former Khmer rouge leaders are detained (background) as they arrive at the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh for the opening of the Khmer rouge trial.(AFP/Tang Chin Sothy)
People take their seats before the trial of Kaing Guek Eav (3rd R), also known as Duch, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 17, 2009. Duch, the ex-commandant of the notorious S-21 prison and chief Khmer Rouge torturer, faced trial for crimes against humanity on Tuesday, the first by a senior Pol Pot cadre three decades since the end of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the court should allow some khmer people to question these culprits in the court so everybody can hear. i know every khmer people will have tears when we speak about the KR time! whether that can be healed or not, it is up to the khmer people to decide for themselves as they lost so much, not only lives, but everything they ever worked for, i mean everything! imagine that! thank you.