Tuesday, April 21, 2009

KRouge prison chief (DUCH)killed and tortured prisoners


Skulls of victims are piled up on display at the Choeung Ek memorial where the Khmer Rouge regime's executed thousands of people between 1975 and 1979. A former Khmer Rouge jailer told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Tuesday a jungle camp where starving prisoners were tortured was "a place where humanity was smashed".(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)

Cambodian Lim Phet reacts when he saw the venue where the Khmer Rouge set up M13 prison in early 1970s in the jungle at Trapang Chrap, Kampong Chhnang province, a bout 80 kilometers (49 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. The prison's former commander Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, 66, accused of overseeing the torture and execution of thousands of men, women and children said Tuesday that his underlings were taught class hatred that allowed them to kill their enemies.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian Lim Phet shows the venue where the Khmer Rouge set up M13 prison in early 1970s in the jungle at Trapang Chrap, Kampong Chhnang province, a bout 80 kilometers (49 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. The prison's former commander Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, 66, accused of overseeing the torture and execution of thousands of men, women and children said Tuesday that his underlings were taught class hatred that allowed them to kill their

Cambodian Lim Phet, left, and Mark Oeun show the venue where the Khmer Rouge set up M13 prison in early 1970s in the jungle at Trapang Chrap, Kampong Chhnang province, a bout 80 kilometers (49 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. The prison's former commander Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, 66, accused of overseeing the torture and execution of thousands of men, women and children said Tuesday that his underlings were taught class hatred that allowed them to kill their enemies.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A Cambodian photographer, left, takes a photo of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, on a screen at a court press center during the U.N.-backed tribunal Monday, April 20, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia's genocide tribunal reopens its historic trial of the accused Khmer Rouge chief on Monday. Duch is the first senior Khmer Rouge figure to face trial, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as homicide and torture.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A tourist videos victims' portraits at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh on April 20, 2009. A former Khmer Rouge jailer told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Tuesday a jungle camp where starving prisoners were tortured was "a place where humanity was smashed".(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

People line up to enter a court where former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, is standing trial in Phnom Penh. A former Khmer Rouge jailer told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Tuesday a jungle camp where starving prisoners were tortured was "a place where humanity was smashed".(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

A Cambodian boy looks at skulls and bones inside a memorial for the two million victims of the Khmer Rouge regime. A witness at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court wept openly as he testified that former Khmer Rouge prison chief executed his uncle at a secret jungle camp.(AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)

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