A former Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people will spend the rest of his life in jail, Cambodia‘s UN-backed court ruled in a final appeal verdict.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.
Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was originally sentenced to 30 years in 2010 for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role as head of the feared S-21 prison in the late 1970s, but judges ruled on appeal that the initial punishment did not “reflect the gravity of the crimes”.
S-21, also known as Tuol Sleng prison, was one of the countless prisons of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus and thousands of inmates were taken from there for execution in a nearby orchard that served as a “Killing Field“
