Cambodia trial verdict
16000 deaths,19 years in jail – fury greets sentence for Pol Pot’s executioner
This was the headline in today’s Independent – 27 July.
The court ruled that the former maths teacher who had overseen the Tuol Sleng interrrogation centre should be sentenced to 35 years in jail, reduced to 18 years 10 months after consideration of time already served.
Alongside the report of the trial verdict is a piece by Nic Dunlop who tracked down comrade Duch in 1999.It is a balanced article. He comments that the trial became an examination of how human beings behave in times of great extremity, and he asks the question;What would we have done in his shoes?….
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