Khmer Rouge Torturer Gets 30 Years for Mass Murder
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The Khmer Rouge’s top jailer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for overseeing the “shocking and heinous” murder and torture of more than 12,000 inmates at the genocidal Cambodian regime’s Tuol Sleng prison.
The verdict by the United Nations-backed tribunal on Kang Kek Ieu, better known as Duch, marks the first conviction in a 13-year effort to bring to book the leaders of a regime blamed for the deaths of a quarter of the population. The converted school in the capital, Phnom Penh, was the most notorious prison in a network targeting the educated elite as the movement tried to create an agrarian society starting at Year Zero.