By JERRY HARMER
Associated Press
Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, the first high-ranking member of Cambodia's ousted regime to be tried for war crimes at a U.N.-backed tribunal.
The proceedings conclude Friday and tribunal judges are expected to issue a ruling and sentence early next year. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch (pronounced DOIK), is expected to testify as soon as Wednesday.
The tribunal is seeking justice for an estimated 1.7 million people who died from execution, overwork, disease and malnutrition as a result of the ultra-communist group's policies while in power from 1975-79.
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