(Mak Remissa/EPA)
Kaing Geuak Eav, known as Comrade Duch
"It is simply inconceivable that anything other than a lengthy sentence of imprisonment should be imposed on him."
Duch faces a maximum life sentence as the tribunal does not have the power to impose the death penalty.
Despite his repeated apologies to his victims, the former torturer-in-chief has continued to claim that he acted under orders from his superiors, and was often frightened for his own life as he saw his peers taken to be executed.
However the prosecution argued that he played a vital role in keeping Pol Pot's regime in power.
"S-21 formed an integral and indeed vital role in a widespread attack on the population of Cambodia," Ms Chea told the court at the start of Duch's nine month long trial. "The accused's crimes were part of this attack.
"Once detained there [at S-21] ... new prisoners would in turn be tortured until they confessed to being enemies, implicating their friends, colleagues, and neighbours, creating a new list of traitors to be arrested, tortured and smashed.
"By his knowledge of this attack ... Duch, as head of S-21, plays a key role in its implementation."
Duch has been detained since 1999, when he was found working as a Christian aid worker in the jungle, and was formally arrested by the tribunal in July 2007.
A verdict is expected in March 2010.
Duch faces a maximum life sentence as the tribunal does not have the power to impose the death penalty.
Despite his repeated apologies to his victims, the former torturer-in-chief has continued to claim that he acted under orders from his superiors, and was often frightened for his own life as he saw his peers taken to be executed.
However the prosecution argued that he played a vital role in keeping Pol Pot's regime in power.
"S-21 formed an integral and indeed vital role in a widespread attack on the population of Cambodia," Ms Chea told the court at the start of Duch's nine month long trial. "The accused's crimes were part of this attack.
"Once detained there [at S-21] ... new prisoners would in turn be tortured until they confessed to being enemies, implicating their friends, colleagues, and neighbours, creating a new list of traitors to be arrested, tortured and smashed.
"By his knowledge of this attack ... Duch, as head of S-21, plays a key role in its implementation."
Duch has been detained since 1999, when he was found working as a Christian aid worker in the jungle, and was formally arrested by the tribunal in July 2007.
A verdict is expected in March 2010.
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