Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Duch's lawyer argues his client is being made a scapegoat (ABC Radio Australia)

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Thirty years after the fall of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, the first testimony begins today in the nation's controversial genocide tribunal.

The former commandent of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, the man known as Brother Duch, will take the stand.

His lawyer says he has conceded responsibility for the torture and execution of more than 12,000 men, women and children.

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