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  • Head of Khmer Rouge torture prison dies aged 77

    11/13/2020 5:28:59 PM PST · by Jacob Kell · 17 replies
    AFP (by way of MSN) ^ | 9/2/2020 | Nhet Sokheng
    The former chief interrogator and top torturer for Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died early Wednesday in hospital in Phnom Penh. He was 77.Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his alias Duch, had served as the head of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison and was later convicted of crimes against humanity by a UN-backed war crimes tribunal for his role in the "Killing Fields" regime.
  • Khmer Rouge defendant expresses 'heartfelt sorrow'

    03/31/2009 10:16:47 AM PDT · by angkor · 24 replies · 711+ views
    Washington Times ^ | March 31, 2009 | GRANT PECK ASSOCIATED PRESS
    PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (AP) - The man who ran the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison in Cambodia accepted responsibility Tuesday for torturing and executing thousands of inmates and expressed "heartfelt sorrow" for his crimes. Kaing Guek Eav (pronounced "Gang Geck Ee-uu"), better known as Duch ("Doik"), told the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal he wanted to apologize for his actions under the Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies while in power from 1975 to 1979 left an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians dead. Duch, 66, who commanded the group's main S-21 prison, accepted responsibility for the crimes committed there, "especially the torture and execution...