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He was better known as Brother Duch. He hired torture and interrogated thousands of men, women and children at the infamous Tuol Sleng Prison.
Kjelder informs AFP that he has been in and out of the hospital a lot for several years and that he had “a serious lung problem.”
In 2012, Duch was sentenced to 30 years in prison for human rights abuses by the UN Special Court of Cambodia, after pleading guilty to the murder of at least 12,272 prisoners. The sentence was later extended to life imprisonment.
Tuol Sleng Prison in Cambodia.
Photo: MYKLEBOST / SCANPIX
At trial, Duch apologized for the crimes he had committed, and then asked to be acquitted on the grounds that he did not occupy a prominent position in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy and was simply following orders from above.
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge.
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The Khmer Rouge Cambodian Communist Party took power in 1975. It marked the beginning of four years of terror and it is estimated that between 1.7 and 2.2 million Cambodians died of starvation, disease or death while the Khmer Rouge were in power. the power.
Pol Pot’s regime was overthrown in 1979, but the Khmer Rouge’s last stronghold did not fall until 1998.
