By Anne Barrowclough
The Times Online
Cambodian prosecutors have called for the former prison chief in charge of the Khmer Rouge's main torture centre to receive a long jail term for his role in the torture and murder of thousands of Cambodians during Pol Pot's genocidal regime.
Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, has admitted responsibility and apologised for the atrocities committed at Tuol Sleng or S-21, the regime's most notorious prison, when he was director there between 1977 - 1979.
Under Duch, the prison was less a jail than an ante-room to death. Of the 15,000 men, women and children who were sent to S-21, only 15 emerged alive. Prisoner were tortured into confessing imaginary crimes against the State and then were bludgeoned to death, had their throats and stomachs slit open, or were literally bled to death.
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