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| Southeast Asia |
| Khmer Rouge prison chief on trial |
| 2009-03-30 |
| The Khmer Rouge regime's prison chief finally stood trial on Monday for Cambodia's "Killing Fields" atrocities, accused of overseeing the torture and execution of 15,000 people three decades ago. Former teacher Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch -- appeared before a UN-backed war crimes court set up to deal with senior members of the 1975-1979 communist movement which killed up to two million people. Wearing a white striped shirt, the frail 66-year-old heard charges that prisoners at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison he ran were subjected to beatings, suffocation and electrocution before being killed. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Justice delayed is justice denied. |
| Posted by: GORT 2009-03-30 15:03 |