PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A war crimes court in Cambodia should impose a 40-year jail sentence on "Comrade Duch," the former Khmer Rouge prison chief, a prosecutor says.
Bill Smith told the United Nations-backed tribunal that Duch, 67, must be held accountable for his "unrelenting brutality," the BBC reported Wednesday.
"The sentence to be imposed by this trial chamber should be 40 years' imprisonment," Smith told the court.
As many as 17,000 inmates are thought to have passed through the gates of Duch's Tuol Sleng prison where they were tortured and killed at the height of Pol Pot's regime in the 1970s.
Duch encouraged the jail's interrogation teams to apply torture techniques that included cutting off prisoners' fingers and toes and forcing them to eat their own excrement, The Times of London reports.
Duch, whose real name is Kang Kek leu, is the first of five leading Khmer Rouge figures to be tried and the only former member of Pol Pot's inner circle to admit his guilt.
Bill Smith told the United Nations-backed tribunal that Duch, 67, must be held accountable for his "unrelenting brutality," the BBC reported Wednesday.
"The sentence to be imposed by this trial chamber should be 40 years' imprisonment," Smith told the court.
As many as 17,000 inmates are thought to have passed through the gates of Duch's Tuol Sleng prison where they were tortured and killed at the height of Pol Pot's regime in the 1970s.
Duch encouraged the jail's interrogation teams to apply torture techniques that included cutting off prisoners' fingers and toes and forcing them to eat their own excrement, The Times of London reports.
Duch, whose real name is Kang Kek leu, is the first of five leading Khmer Rouge figures to be tried and the only former member of Pol Pot's inner circle to admit his guilt.
2 comments:
oh...my god...that's it....kill my family...and your family...just 40 years shit.....
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!
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