By SOPHENG CHEANG and LUKE HUNT
(AP)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The former prison chief whose trial by Cambodia's genocide tribunal is coming to an end was a willing, even enthusiastic, participant in atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, prosecutors charged Tuesday.
The prosecution, making its closing arguments, is demanding a lengthy prison term for Kaing Guek Eav, who commanded S-21 prison when the communist group held power in 1975-79, and oversaw the torture and execution there of about 16,000 men, women and children accused of disloyalty.
Some 1.7 million Cambodians died of torture, execution, disease and starvation during the Khmer Rouge's rule, during which the Maoist ideologues emptied cities and forced virtually the entire population to work on farm collectives.
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