Pictured is a live feed of former Khmer Rouge chief torturer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, during his trial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh April 1, 2009.
REUTERS/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaBaltimore News.Net
Thursday 23rd April, 2009
The trial of one of Pol Pot's surviving henchmen in Cambodia has brought up horror stories of Khmer Rouge torture and killings.
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, has told of how security camps in certain villages were designed as a prototype for death camps.
Duch has told of the original death camps, MI3 and S21, which he ran and used to torture, interrogate, and finally kill so-called dissidents.
About two million people, or a third of Cambodia's population, died under the Khmer Rouge.
Duch was only brought to justice earlier this year.
He is the first senior Khmer Rouge figure to face trial and is the only one of five in custody to acknowledge responsibility for his actions.
He allegedly oversaw the extermination of more than 16,000 people while at the helm of the death camps between 1975 and 1979.
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