Friday, July 3rd, 2009 04:55:00
PHNOM PENH: A former child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture facility wept yesterday as he described to Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal the last time he saw his mother before she was murdered by the Maoist regime.
Norng Chan Phal, 39, told the court he was separated from his mother after they arrived with his brother at the school-turned-torture facility in 1978.
"Then, one day when we were in the yard, I could see her on the second floor holding on to the bars and looking."
His testimony came in the trial of former S-21 torture facility chief Kaing Guek Eav, known by his revolutionary alias Duch, who faces charges of crimes against humanity, premeditated murder and breach of the Geneva Conventions.
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