Survivors of Khmer Rouge torture center await justice
PHNOM PENH — In January 1979, as the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed and its leaders fled Phnom Penh, invading Vietnamese troops stumbled upon an abandoned prison with fresh corpses chained to iron beds. It was Tuol Sleng, or “Hill of the Poisonous Trees,” the most infamous of all of the jails run by Pol Pot’s murderous regime. Next week the prison’s former chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, will hear the verdict in his trial at a UN-backed tribunal where witnesses have recounted the horrors of a place from which almost no one came out alive. Norng Chan Phal, 40, is one of just a handful of survivors to emerge from the Khmer Rouge regime’s main torture center, liberated by the Vietnamese invasion. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100725com3.html |
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