By CHHENG Sambo
Cambodia, ECCC–Kaing Guek Eav, the jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief better known as Duch, confessed to tribunal judge Jun.22 he did ordere to torture the prisoners during the interrogation and executing when he was on power at S21.
Co-prosecutor, yet chakriya, confirmed Duch whether or not when referred to some notes which they were his ordering such as “have not confessed, Torture, and Smash”.
In response to co-prosecutor’s question, Duch, head of the Tuol Sleng torture centure, said that it was true that those notes were written by him as well as his ordering. He added that he regulated to his colleagues to interrogate the prisoners followed the superiors ordering and the torturing depend on the interrogators.
In case of the interrogators forced prisoner to eat excrement Duch told the hearing on same day that it was a wrong doing out of the internal S-21 regulation.
However, the co-prosecutor Yeth Chakriya asked Duch whether he punished to his colleagues or not. Then Duch said he did not do that because it was the case which his colleagues did without letting him be aware about that problem.
In the past following of the hearing, Duch always ignore the court he has never tortured anyone by himself. As he stated he always followed the order from his superior, but today, Jun.22,2009 during the hearing, he admitted to hit Chheth Ev, prisoner, instead of Nat. Duch added Chheth Ev used to be the national security police inspector who interrogated and tortured khmer rouge a lot that why Nat had rancor with him so Duch did not want Nat to touch with the prisoner as Nat was a high ranking official.
Duch , along with another note[smash all] which was presented by the court, also admitted he killed 17 children at Tuol Sleng torture centure.
Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, face charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder, in the first trial to be undertaken by the UN-backed court and the case of 001 of Duch’s will be prolonged to finished during the late of October, 2009.
Nil Non, the trail chamber’s chief judge, confirmed that the trail of Kaing Guek Eav should be careful for the translators, interpreters in order not to misunderstand about the answers from Kaing Guek Eav in the following hearing especially to avoid the error
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