Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Call for 40-year term for ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief

Wednesday, 25 November 2009
BBC News

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav should be jailed for 40 years, a prosecutor has told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court.

Kaing, known as Comrade Duch, has admitted responsibility and apologised for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people at Tuol Sleng prison.

The tribunal is not expected to give a verdict before early next year.

Up to two million Cambodians died under Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970s.

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