PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, accused of crimes against humanity, faced closing arguments Monday at his trial in Cambodia.
The 67-year-old accused, also known as Comrade Duch, could be sent to prison for life if convicted in the deaths in the 1970s of more than 14,000 people in the Tuol Sleng prison and torture house, The New York Times reported.
His case is the first of a United Nations-backed tribunal looking into the atrocities of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979 in which about 1.7 million people died.
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