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Phnom Penh Wednesday, 20 October 2010
"So I think, without a doubt, the crime is serious enough to warrant the life sentence."
Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have issued an appeal seeking a minimum 45 years in prison without parole for the torture chief Kaing Kek Iev, better known as Duch.
In an appeal made public Tuesday court prosecutors Andrew Cayley and Chea Leang pushed for life in prison commuted to 45 years for the illegal detention Duch underwent before the tribunal was established.
If accepted by the Supreme Court Chamber, the sentence would be a large increase to the 19 commuted years Duch received in sentencing in July and an effective life sentence for the 68-year-old, who oversaw the deaths of more than 12,000 people are Tuol Sleng prison.
The UN-backed tribunal found Duch guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in July, following months of testimony and hearings.
In their appeal, posted on the tribunal's website on Tuesday, prosecutors said the original sentence had been “unfair and inadequate.” The Trial Chamber had failed to separately convict the accused for extermination, murder, enslavement, rape, imprisonment, torture and other inhumane acts, they wrote.
“They murdered over 10,000 people in that place and tortured many others,” Cayley said. “There were a handful of survivors. So I think, without a doubt, the crime is serious enough to warrant the life sentence.”
Bou Meng, one of those survivors, said Tuesday he would gladly accept a life sentence for his former captor.
6 comments:
KR go to hell!
I don't think he will live that long . If he is lucky , he will live for 15 more years .
SAMAK MITH DUCH,
Please take PREAH SAMAK MITH BEIDA SIHANOUK with you in hell.
A Survivor of The Killing Fields
Let him rot in jail till his time to go to hell!
If I were him, I would not ask to get out.
I had read some comments by a few bloggers seemed to understand the crazy politics of Cambodia.
Youn is the instigators. They make us confused.
If Pol pot did not fight on... Cambodia had become Viet Na province since 1975 already. Pol Pot forgot that there were Viet Nae armies that King father had allowed them to invade Khmer territories ( those time those soldier had killed our people in those provinces but King father did not say a shit to save those people.
King Father is the main culprit. what is his ultimate ambition ? is it for his Viet blood wife or was it King father has no clue like today.
I want some opinions from some of you who know the real facts. Do not attack him but express what is the real truce of Cambodian politics.
sincerely..... Khmer Komsot.
DUCH MUST PUT IN JAIL FOR LIFE EVEN GOD CAN NOT HELP HIM.THE JUDGES SHOULD ALLOW PRISON KEEPER TO CHAIN BOTH LEGS,HANDS,NECK ALL HIS LIFE.WE NOW HAVE FOUR MORE TO GO,BUT I THINK JUDGES SHOULD ADD FIVE MORE INCLUDING SIHANOUK AND MONIQUE BECAUSE BOTH OF THEM ARE THE MAIN PERSON WHO WERE CREATING THE KILLING FIELD.JUDGES SHOULD DECIDE TO HANG SIHANOUK AND MONIQUE UPSIDE DOWN.
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