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Khmer Rouge Jailer Has First Day in Court

Posted Nov 20, 07 12:50 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  World 

(Newser) – The Cambodian “Killing Fields” tribunal heard an application for bail today from Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the math teacher who became the chief jailer of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. Of at least 14,000 who went into Duch’s prison, only 10 survived, Reuters reports.

Duch has been held without trial for over 8 years as the genocide court squabbled over money. When his lawyer said Duch’s imprisonment violated his human rights, Cambodian spectators laughed, the New York Times reports. When journalists found him in 1999, he confessed to ordering multiple atrocities at S-21 prison.

Sources Reuters, New York Times

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Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, center, former Khmer Rouge prison chief at Tuol Sleng prison, sits inside the court room during a hearing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007. Cambodia's U.N.-backed...   (Associated Press)
Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief at Tuol Sleng prison, sits inside the court room in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, during a hearing. Cambodia's U.N.-backed...   (Associated Press)
This general view shows a court room during a hearing of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief at Tuol Sleng prison, at the court hall of Khmer Rouge Tribunal headquarters in...   (Associated Press)
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