Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Khmer Rouge jailer to return to infamous prison

australianetwork.com
27/02/2008

The Cambodian and UN court investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s will see the accused jailer return to the notorious prison he ran in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.

Officials say reconstruction of his actions before tribunal judges is a normal part of the tribunal's ongoing investigation.

As South East Asia Correspondent Karen Percy reports Kaing Guek Eav otherwise known as Comrade Duch will visit Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng prison.

He will join two co-investigating judges from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the tribunal which is investigating and prosecuting those responsible for the Khmer Rough genocide.

An estimated 16-thousand Cambodians were detained and tortured at the prison, and then taken to fields where they were murdered.

The Khmer Rouge ran Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 under the model of an agrarian cooperative.
During that time, one-point-seven million people were killed or died of starvation.

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