PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 29 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Cambodia allege former math teacher Kaing Guek Eav oversaw the torture and killing of more than 15,000 people in a Khmer Rouge prison.
Better known as Duch, the 66-year-old is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and murder in a trial to resume Monday before a U.N.-backed tribunal, CNN reported, noting he is the first Khmer Rouge leader to stand trial.
He is accused of heading S-21, a prison in a converted school where men, women and children were shackled to iron beds and tortured before being beaten to death three decades ago, prosecutors told the tribunal.
Duch, now a born-again Christian, allegedly ordered his subordinates to meticulously photograph each prisoner before death, CNN reported Sunday.
The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 and within four years at least 1.7 million people -- nearly 25 percent of Cambodia's population -- had died from starvation, disease, execution and overwork, said the non-profit Documentation Center of Cambodia.
Better known as Duch, the 66-year-old is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and murder in a trial to resume Monday before a U.N.-backed tribunal, CNN reported, noting he is the first Khmer Rouge leader to stand trial.
He is accused of heading S-21, a prison in a converted school where men, women and children were shackled to iron beds and tortured before being beaten to death three decades ago, prosecutors told the tribunal.
Duch, now a born-again Christian, allegedly ordered his subordinates to meticulously photograph each prisoner before death, CNN reported Sunday.
The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 and within four years at least 1.7 million people -- nearly 25 percent of Cambodia's population -- had died from starvation, disease, execution and overwork, said the non-profit Documentation Center of Cambodia.
8 comments:
Duch should be shackle to iron bed the rest of his life in prison! the same way he did to Khmer people in prison, and give him just a few drop of rice soup a day! So, he will felt the pains the same way those people felt...
Yep,
I agree! he should treat the same way he did to those khmer people in prison..
And N. Sihanouk should be tried as a criminal against Humanity, as he had been a president of Kampuchea Democratic of Pol Pot regime created by Viet Hanoi and China.
Yeah! I support your idea, 3:45 AM.
From 1975 Khmer rouge-vietcong of King Sihanouk had killed so many Khmer people and the National army of Gen.Lon Nol, this fucken king is the KILLER!! this is King Sihanouk revenged! Vietcong help him getting his throne back by killed so many life of khmer people during that time...
It wat Vietnamese tricks! by the time he realize that he got fools YOUNS, it's too late! he called YOUN Ah kor poeur!!!! YOUNS kro peur!!!!
dumbass stupid king sihanouk mother fucker!
Well,
He's untouchable folks! this midget very clever, he's let those khmer rouge leaders stand trial for him, and he's free...
I luv to see him put on trial real bad...that stupid midget king sihanouk!
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