DPA
Phnom Penh - Comrade Duch, the defendant in the first case tried by the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, sacked his foreign defence lawyer Friday, weeks before the court is to hand down its verdict.
The tribunal said it would allow Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, to fire Frenchman Francois Roux over what it said were the "exceptional circumstances" of Duch's "loss of confidence" in Roux.
Duch is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the deaths of more than 12,000 people when he headed S-21, the Khmer Rouge's key torture and execution centre in Phnom Penh from 1975 to 1979. He is to hear the verdict in his case July 26.
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