Photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, show Kang Guek Eav, (C), the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, in the court room of the U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 25 Nov 2009Kaing Guek Eav is accused of overseeing the torture and execution of more than 15,000 men, women and children in Cambodia.
Luke Hunt
Phnom Penh 25 November 2009
Voice of America
In Cambodia, final arguments are being heard in the trial of a senior Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the deaths of at least 12,000 people.
Kang Guek Eav, also known as Duch, apologized in court Wednesday. He said he will always be liable for the crimes committed under his stewardship and will always be responsible for the souls who perished at the prison he ran.
He spoke after prosecutors demanded a 40-year prison sentence for Duch's systematic killing of thousands of prisoners at the Khmer Rouge prison known as Toul Sleng, or S-21. As many as 12,000 prisoners died there - only a few ever walked out of S-21 alive.
The prosecutors did not demand a life sentence, because of the years Duch as already spent in prison and because he has shown some remorse, pleaded no contest to the charges and provided evidence against other Khmer Rouge leaders.
Prosecutors Wednesday told the court that Duch's crimes are comparable to massacres carried out under Stalin's Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, where those who did not fit in faced violence.
Co-prosecutor William Smith says under the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979, prisoners were routinely beaten, faced electric shocks, had their toenails torn out, were whipped and faced water-boarding.
Surgery was performed on prisoners without anesthesia and blood was extracted from them until they lay dying.
"The closing of Kang Guek Eav, known as Duch, will also close the darkest chapter in Cambodian history," said Reach Sambath, the chief spokesman for the court. "A lot of people come to Toul Sleng and they have a lot of question marks. Now they can see the court is putting him on trial and will take him to jail."
As many as two million people perished under the ultra-Maoist government - through execution, starvation or illness. Cambodia's long running civil war and international politics meant it was not until this year that any of the Khmer Rouge leaders faced trial.
Final submission from the victims and the defense are being delivered this week before the international tribunal goes into recess. Sentencing is not expected until early next year.
Although most Khmer Rouge leaders are dead, at least four are expected to be brought to trial sometime next year.
Luke Hunt
Phnom Penh 25 November 2009
Voice of America
In Cambodia, final arguments are being heard in the trial of a senior Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the deaths of at least 12,000 people.
Kang Guek Eav, also known as Duch, apologized in court Wednesday. He said he will always be liable for the crimes committed under his stewardship and will always be responsible for the souls who perished at the prison he ran.
He spoke after prosecutors demanded a 40-year prison sentence for Duch's systematic killing of thousands of prisoners at the Khmer Rouge prison known as Toul Sleng, or S-21. As many as 12,000 prisoners died there - only a few ever walked out of S-21 alive.
The prosecutors did not demand a life sentence, because of the years Duch as already spent in prison and because he has shown some remorse, pleaded no contest to the charges and provided evidence against other Khmer Rouge leaders.
Prosecutors Wednesday told the court that Duch's crimes are comparable to massacres carried out under Stalin's Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, where those who did not fit in faced violence.
Co-prosecutor William Smith says under the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979, prisoners were routinely beaten, faced electric shocks, had their toenails torn out, were whipped and faced water-boarding.
Surgery was performed on prisoners without anesthesia and blood was extracted from them until they lay dying.
"The closing of Kang Guek Eav, known as Duch, will also close the darkest chapter in Cambodian history," said Reach Sambath, the chief spokesman for the court. "A lot of people come to Toul Sleng and they have a lot of question marks. Now they can see the court is putting him on trial and will take him to jail."
As many as two million people perished under the ultra-Maoist government - through execution, starvation or illness. Cambodia's long running civil war and international politics meant it was not until this year that any of the Khmer Rouge leaders faced trial.
Final submission from the victims and the defense are being delivered this week before the international tribunal goes into recess. Sentencing is not expected until early next year.
Although most Khmer Rouge leaders are dead, at least four are expected to be brought to trial sometime next year.
8 comments:
40 years in prison is not enough in my opinion. This guy is very mean when he was in power, killing far too many innocent people even his own in-law, his own family. He should be hung alive, broadcast on TV so the Cambodian people can see to relieve anger, and to teach other KR bad guys not to follow this astrocity. German in WWII killed too many people also, but those killed are not their own people. But the KR loved to kill his own Khmer, his own blood. What made them do that? what they get out of it? Retaliation, revenge....yes!
Those KR were in power not to rebuild the country, not to build a good and clean society. They in power to kill, period. In Cambodia history, no era like KR era.
What are you going to tell your kids when they see pictures of skulls and bones on TV or on portraits?
JUSTICE HAS BEEN PARTIALLY SERVED!
40 years? tied him up the back of pickup truck...!
Ah Duch penis is getting up?, you can tell...by Tul Khor!
Stupid oldfuck got no pussy for a long time i guess..? his pong kdor got up like artillery at preah vihear...!
I think he's too horny to see the judge boobs!
All he has to do, used his hands sometime...save money and from diseased..!
Duch pants about to explode...
Balloon SAGA...
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