By Martin Petty
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - After six months of testimony in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of the former Khmer Rouge, many Cambodians who suffered from the tyrannical regime have one question: Why is it taking so long?
Closing arguments begin next Monday in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, former chief of the notorious S-21 prison, where more than 14,000 "enemies" of the ultra-Maoist revolution died.
Any sentencing will not take place until next year. Four other senior Khmer Rouge cadres are in custody awaiting trial.
Most Cambodians want swift justice for the first senior Pol Pot cadre facing a tribunal in the three decades since the end of the regime blamed for an estimated 1.7 million deaths.
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