Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Full Justice ‘Impossible’: Tuol Sleng Survivor

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington
12 January 2010

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng prison considers the formation of the UN-backed tribunal a bit of good luck, and says even if the court doesn’t bring full justice, it may bring enough.
“Although the tribunal can’t get 100 percent justice, I would accept even 50 percent,” said Chum Mey, one of the few survivors of the prison run by Kaing Kek Iev, or Duch.
The trial for Duch in his role as administrator of Tuol Sleng and other facilities concluded in October, with a verdict expected soon. Duch and four senior regime leaders will go on trial for atrocity crimes as early as this year.
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