Comrade Duch, chief torturer of Khmer Rouge regime, dies in prison aged 77
SCMP, 03 Sep 2020
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Jailed former Khmer Rouge prison commander Kaing Guek Eav has died at the age of 77. Also known as “Comrade Duch”, he oversaw the torture and murder of thousands of people in Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng prison in the late 1970s. He was a part of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime. Duch died on September 2, 2020, at a hospital in the capital Phnom Penh while serving a life sentence for his crimes.
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Jailed former Khmer Rouge prison commander Kaing Guek Eav has died at the age of 77. Also known as “Comrade Duch”, he oversaw the torture and murder of thousands of people in Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng prison in the late 1970s. He was a part of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime. Duch died on September 2, 2020, at a hospital in the capital Phnom Penh while serving a life sentence for his crimes.
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