The Khmer Rouge commander known as “Comrade Duch”, Pol Pot’s premier executioner and security chief who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died on Wednesday. He was 77.Kaing Guek Eav or “Comrade Duch” was the first member of the Khmer Rouge leadership to face trial for his role within a regime blamed for at least 1.7 million deaths in the “killing fields” of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.Duch died at 12.52am at the Khmer Soviet Friendship…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3099820/khmer-rouge-prison-commander-comrade-duch-dead-77
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
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