Prosecutors Seek Lifetime in Prison for Duch

Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh

Photo: AP A photographer takes pictures from a television screen of Kaing Guek Eav, while on trial awaiting a verdict, July 2010.

Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have issued an appeal seeking a minimum 45 years in prison without parole for the torture chief Kaing Kek Iev, better known as Duch.

In an appeal made public Tuesday court prosecutors Andrew Cayley and Chea Leang pushed for life in prison commuted to 45 years for the illegal detention Duch underwent before the tribunal was established.

If accepted by the Supreme Court Chamber, the sentence would be a large increase to the 19 commuted years Duch received in sentencing in July and an effective life sentence for the 68-year-old, who oversaw the deaths of more than 12,000 people are Tuol Sleng prison.

The UN-backed tribunal found Duch guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in July, following months of testimony and hearings.

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Written by KI Media

April 17, 2010 at 11:31 am

By Sam Vichea

Prosecution wants ‘lengthy jail term’ for Duch in Khmer Rouge trial

Tue, 24 Nov 2009
DPA, KI Media

Khmer Rouge trial Duch

Phnom Penh – The prosecution at Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal called Tuesday for judges to hand down a lengthy jail term to Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious prison. Co-prosecutor Chea Leang said the evidence showed that Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, was guilty of a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“The crimes are of such extreme seriousness and afflicted so many people that it is inconceivable that anything other than a lengthy prison sentence be imposed on him,” she said.

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.