A man in Cambodia watches a live telecast of the trial of chief Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch. [Reuters]Robert Carmichael, Phnom Penh
ABC Radio Australia
A half-hour television show has proved a surprise success in Cambodia by telling people about the trial of Comrade Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison commander.
It has become an important way to tell the country of the crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge regime.
Much television fare in Cambodia is light entertainment.
But this show presented by journalists Neth Pheaktra and Ung Chan Sophea is at the other end of the spectrum.
It deals with the continuing war crimes trial of Comrade Duch - Kaing Guek Eav - the former Khmer Rouge cadre who ran the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh in the middle and late 1970s.
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