Tuesday, 21 July 2009

.'Killing Fields' Trial

A journalist takes a photo of a screen showing Him Huy, a former security guard of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, known Tuol Sleng genocide museum, at the court press center as a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal trying Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, chief of the prison, continues in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 20, 2009.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)


Tourists take a tour at the grave side in Tuol Sleng genocide museum, which formally was Pol Pot's S-21 prison, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, July 19, 2009. Up to 16,000 people were tortured under the command by Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, and later taken away to be killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. Only a handful survived.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian woman and her child view the Khmer Rouge's torture depicted on a painting in Tuol Sleng genocide museum, which formally was Pol Pot's S-21 prison, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, July 19, 2009. Up to 16,000 people were tortured under the command by Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, and later taken away to be killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. Only a handful survived.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)


Tep Sok (L), 64, a Cambodian teacher at Kampong province and a former student of Duch, waits in line to attend Duch's trial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh July 20, 2009. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, is the first of the five indicted former Khmer Rouge cadres to face trial. The chief torturer of the Khmer Rouge regime faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea


Cambodian teachers wait in line to attend the trial of Duch on the outskirts of Phnom Penh July 20 , 2009. Duch, a former maths teacher whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, is the first of the five indicted former Khmer Rouge cadres to face trial. The chief torturer of the Khmer Rouge regime faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A Cambodian woman looks at skulls on display at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial, near Phnom Penh. Led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge emptied Cambodia's cities in a bid to forge a communist utopia.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

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