PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A former top Khmer Rouge cadre said on Wednesday he only agreed to become Pol Pot's chief torturer to save the lives of himself and his family.
Duch, the former boss of Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison, said he feared he would be killed by the leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and had pleaded with them to assign him to another position.
"My family was living in fear. I made many attempts to avoid being chief of the prison but the Khmer Rouge's leaders rejected my requests," Duch told the joint United Nations-Cambodian war crimes tribunal.
"I did my best to survive. I worked hard, 10 to 14 hours a day, because I feared I would be killed."
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