DPA
Phnom Penh - Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Duch, who is charged with crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, ran the infamous torture and execution centre known as S-21 in Phnom Penh between 1975 and 1979. At least 15,000 people died at S-21 during that time, and just a handful survived.
Lawyers for the prosecution, defence and civil parties are scheduled to address the court from Monday to Thursday. The civil parties are a grouping of 90 people whose relatives were killed during Duch's command of S-21.
Karim Khan, a civil party lawyer, told the court on Monday that Duch had run a camp "dedicated to death" and said the accused's stance that he had little choice but to carry out his functions held little water.
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