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The Khmer Rouge regime’s torturer nickname of Douch during a trial in Cambodia – ECCC / AFP / Archives
Former torturer “Douch”, head of Phnom Penh prison under the bloody Cambodian regime of the Khmer Rouge, where some 15,000 people were tortured before being executed, died on Wednesday at the age of 77.
Born in 1942, Kaing Guek Eav, nicknamed Douch, “died in hospital,” announced Neth Pheaktra, spokesman for the UN-supervised Cambodian court to try the crimes of the radical Maoist regime.
“He had suffered from lung disease for several years,” explained a source who asked not to be named.
The former head of Tuol Sleng, S21, the capital’s central prison between 1975 and 1979, was the first Khmer Rouge to be convicted of war crimes by a court.
In 2010, in the first instance, Douch received a 30-year prison sentence. Two years later, on appeal, he was sentenced to life in prison.
After spending several years in hiding, this former math teacher was found in 1999 by an Irish photographer working for a Christian NGO.
Before the judges, during the first trial, Douch explained the piles of documents found in prison after the fall of the regime and the processes to which those tortured were subjected before being executed.
However, after these confessions, the accused decided to change his defense strategy and stop cooperating with justice, claiming to be only a secretary of the regime and asking for his release.
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