DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal concluded its final week on Friday with war crimes suspect Comrade Duch asking judges to acquit him and release him when they hand down judgement early next year.
'I would like the chamber to release me,' Duch told the court, in a move that stunned observers.
Until now, a key plank of the defence's strategy has been to get Duch to take responsibility for his crimes and show remorse in the hope of getting a reduced sentence.
Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, ran S-21, the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison where thousands of perceived enemies of the regime were tortured and murdered between 1975-79. Duch has admitted his complicity in ordering the tortures and executions of more than 12,000 people at S-21 prison.
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