Duch, chairman of S-21
Phnom Penh: Detainees in the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison were tortured and starved and used for medical experiments, according to a pre-trial investigation whose results were read out Monday as Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal began the most crucial stage of the long-awaited trial of the regime's former chief torturer.
In the tribunal's first trial, Kaing Guek Eav, known by his revolutionary name Duch, faces charges of crimes against humanity, premeditated murder, torture and breeches of the Geneva Conventions, allegedly committed more than three decades ago when he was chairman of the Tuol Sleng torture facility, also known as S-21.
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Image: Cambodian students visit Toul Sleng Genocide Museum on Monday, March 30, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
