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CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia (Reuters) - The chief torturer under the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" regime wept and prayed on Tuesday as he led the judges who will try him for crimes against humanity around the mass graves for some of its victims. Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, accompanied 80 judges, lawyers and other officials of a U.N.-backed tribunal to the 129 graves, uncovered after a Vietnamese invasion sent the Khmer Rouge back to the jungles in 1979. "I saw Duch kneel in front of the trees where Khmer Rouge soldiers smashed children to death," a policeman told reporters...

Cambodian police have arrested former head of state Khieu Samphan in a hospital in the capital Phnom Penh. The 76-year-old former leader will be the fifth suspect to be tried by the Cambodia Tribunal. Khieu Samphan is accused of being co-responsible for the killing of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians during the years in which the Khmer Rouge ruled the country, from 1975 until the beginning of 1979. Khieu Samphan says he never knew how much the Cambodian people suffered under the regime of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. He says it was never the Khmer Rouge’s intention to kill...