Cambodia: Comrade Dch awaits the verdict for Khmer Rouge crimes against humanity but professes to know a better verdict awaiting him
Friday, October 09, 2009
By Paul Chesser
World Magazine
Pol Pot has been dead for 11 years and five of his lieutenants have awaited trial for nearly two years, but so far the only Khmer Rouge official close to a verdict for war crimes is his lead jailer.
Kaing Guek Eav's sentencing should come early next year. The plain-spoken former math teacher, known by most as Comrade Duch (pronounced "Doik"), oversaw the torture and delivery to execution of as many as 17,000 Cambodians during Pol Pot's terrifying reign in the late 1970s. The scene of his crimes (by his own admission) was known as S-21, a former high school in Phnom Penh. Today it stands as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum to memorialize the years that wiped out a quarter of the nation's population.
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