Kaing Guek Eav, the first member of the Khmer Rouge leadership to face trial for his role within a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths, has died aged 77.
'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, has died. He was 77.
A file photo of Cambodian students viewing photographs of Khmer Rouge victims on display at Tuol Sleng Genorcide Museum , in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.In 2010, a UN tribunal found him guilty of mass murder, torture and crimes against humanity at Tuol Sleng prison, the former Phnom Penh high school which still stands as a memorial to the atrocities committed inside.
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