For victims, lengthy Khmer Rouge trial painful

Wed Nov 18, 2009
By Martin Petty

Why is it taking so long? many Cambodians peoples are going to kill him.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – After six months of testimony in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of the former Khmer Rouge, many Cambodians who suffered from the tyrannical regime have one question: Why is it taking so long?

Closing arguments begin next Monday in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, former chief of the notorious S-21 prison, where more than 14,000 “enemies” of the ultra-Maoist revolution died.

Any sentencing will not take place until next year. Four other senior Khmer Rouge cadres are in custody awaiting trial.