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French woman weeps over her dead Cambodian husband at UN-court handling Khmer Rouge trial of jail boss Duch.
Phnom Penh – A French woman wept Monday as she told a UN-backed war crimes court how her Cambodian husband was tricked into returning from overseas to die in the Khmer Rouge regime's main prison.
Martine Lefeuvre, 56, was giving evidence at the trial of jail boss Duch, who was accused of overseeing the torture and execution of about 15,000 people at the notorious Tuol Sleng detention centre.
"I came before this chamber in order to ask for justice to be done for this barbaric crime," Lefeuvre told the court, demanding the "maximum sentence" for Duch.
Lefeuvre, a nurse, said her French-educated husband Ouk Ket was asked to return home in 1977 from his job as a diplomat in Senegal, Dakar, to help the reconstruction of Cambodia.
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