Former Head of Real prison Khmer crucified

The former head of the prison-torture center is also called Red-Khmer session the current indictment on genocide, on Wednesday (12 / 8), Cambodia gave people ask "heavy punishment."

Duch (read: Doik) the name of the original Kaing Guek Eav indictment charged the crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder, and torture. Session because he oversees the torture and killing about 15,000 people in the Tuol Sleng detention center in the late 1970's.

"I accept the remorse, grief, and suffering of millions of Cambodian people who have lost their husbands and wives," he said in court that supported the United Nations. "I want to give people of Cambodia, the most serious punishment."

Only a few dozens of thousands of people tortured in the detention center during the Khmer Red 1975-1979 have survived.

"If there is a tradition-such as Cambodia first period when people crucify Jesus Christ, the people of Cambodia, I can do. I will accept, "said Duch, who in the decade of 1990s and become a Christian evangelical organization working for international aid.

Duch had been accept responsibility for his role leading the prison. He apologize for any war crimes and crimes against humanity.

However, he has consistently rejected the prosecution claim that he holds a leadership role in the center of the Red Khmer. He said no one was killed during the Red Khmer regime.

"I will accept without objection ... judgment that all will be made by this court, upon the judgment my role as head of the S-21 and all the crimes committed there. My life is just one and can not be compared with those who lost their lives, "he said.

People first

Duch is the first of five senior leaders of the Red Khmer scheduled hearing and the only one who admitted responsibility for the actions. Session, which began in March, is estimated to be completed end of the year.

Led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Red Khmer evacuate cities in Cambodia in an attempt to build a utopia Agrarian, with the results of the catastrophe until two million people because of hunger, hard work, and torture.

Duch, who was asked by the judge to talk about murder-murder of the Red Khmer, it is said that "As the death of an elephant that can not be hidden by one with only two pieces of tamarind tree leaves."