Prosecutors and defence lawyers are set to give their closing arguments before a sentence is pronounced. Co-prosecutor stresses the proceedings’ success. Source tells AsiaNews that the trial will “not produce any results”. The government is concerned about an analysis of the facts because it could “threaten social peace.”
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews) – The trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as “Comrade Duch”, has entered its last week of deliberations, with lawyers giving closing arguments after months of sessions and testimony at the United Nations international tribunal. Sources in Cambodia told AsiaNews that the proceedings are a “compromise with the past that will not produce any result.”
The 66-year-old former commander of the Tuol Sleng prison or S-21 Prison is charged with crimes against humanity for the death of more than 17,000 Cambodians between 1975 and 1979.
He is the only Khmer Rouge leader to have admitted his responsibilities for the atrocities committed during the Pol Pot regime. In four years of Khmer Rouge rule, almost two million people were killed. He asked for forgiveness and if he is convicted, he could get life in prison.
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