AFP
PHNOM PENH : Survivors and relatives of some of the 15,000 people who died in a Khmer Rouge prison listened as its torture chief Duch pleaded for absolution on the last day of his appeal on Wednesday.
“I still maintain my position to ask for forgiveness for the souls of the victims… and for the families of those victims to accept my apology,” he told the hearing, which also saw a last attempt by those affected to win increased reparations.
Cambodia’s UN-backed court sentenced Duch in July to 30 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity for overseeing mass murder at the notorious prison Tuol Sleng – or S-21 – in the late 1970s.
Reading from a handwritten note, the bespectacled 68-year-old, who is seeking acquittal, told the court he only survived the brutal regime “because I respectfully and strictly followed the orders”, even if at times he felt “very depressed”.
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