By Patrick Falby
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch asked Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Friday to acquit and release him, in a surprise development on the final day of arguments in his nine-month trial.
The 67-year-old had previously said that he admitted responsibility for overseeing the murders of around 15,000 men, women and children at the notorious S-21 or Tuol Sleng prison and begged for forgiveness.
International prosecutors earlier this week asked the judges to impose a jail sentence of 40 years on Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, for his role in the brutal 1975-1979 communist regime.
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