Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell Commander of the Khmer Rouge prison where at least 12,000 Cambodians were killed in the mid- to late '70s, Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, faces the camera ...

Duch led the regime's Tuol Sleng prison, code-named S-21. He was one of the few Khmer Rouge officials to admit any responsibility for the 1975-79 genocide that ultimately left 1.7 million ...

Comrade Duch, a former senior figure of the Khmer Rouge convicted of crimes against humanity in Cambodia, has died. He was serving a life term after being sentenced by a UN-backed court. Kaing ...

Duch then headed up what was perceived as the country's killing machine, the prison system, code-named S-21, which was found to have performed thousands of instances of torture and death.

Duch - by the time of his trial a born-again Christian - expressed regret for his crimes. U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy, in a comment on Twitter, called his conviction "a milestone ...

Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment. Duch, born Kaing Guek Eav, was jailed in 2010 for his role in ...

The prosecution at Tuesday’s appeal hearing for Comrade Duch, the former head of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, has asked the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal to increase the ...

Duch joined the rebels, who were calling themselves the Khmer Rouge. He served as a sector security chief and, in 1971, spent three months interrogating captured French anthropologist Francois Bizot.

Former prison chief "Duch", (real name Kaing Guek Eav), awaiting verdict on war crimes charges, has sacked his French lawyer, citing a loss of confidence. Duch's Cambodian lawyer will nevertheless ...

Comrade Duch may only serve 19 years of his 25-year sentence Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Duch ...