THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Prosecutors have urged a U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia to impose a stiffer sentence of up to life imprisonment on the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer and to convict him of new, separate crimes against humanity.
The arguments came on the second day of appeal hearings for Kaing Guek Eav — also known as Duch.
The 68-year-old Duch was sentenced last July to 35 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. His sentence was reduced to 19 years due to time served and other technicalities.
On Tuesday, prosecutors called for "a life term, reduced to no less than 45 years."
Duch headed the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng prison, known as S-21. Up to 16,000 people were tortured under Duch's command during the regime's 1975-1979 rule.
1 comment:
i am not worried about Duch being a former KR chief.it is over. let him free. i am worried about today socical injustice and land lost to Viet by Sen's signature. every khmer should focus on living traitor, not the dead traitor.
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