But sister of one of his Cambodian victims says Comrade Duch 'an actor trying to play the system'
Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009
By Mark MacKinnon
Phnom Penh — From Thursday's Globe and Mail
They sat 15 metres apart in the courtroom, the repentant war criminal and the sister of one of his early victims.
As Comrade Duch, the jailer who is the first member of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime to face justice, made his final statement yesterday to a tribunal before what will almost certainly be a long imprisonment, he asked people like Antonya Tioulong to forgive him.
An estimated 16,000 people, including Ms. Tioulong's sister Raingsi, died at the infamous S-21 prison while Comrade Duch ran it between 1975 and 1979. Yesterday, the 67-year-old former mathematics teacher, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, said that he was only following orders while overseeing the interrogation, torture and execution of those the regime saw as its opponents.
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