The Killing Fields

...arguments began on Monday in the trial of chief Khmer Rouge interrogator Duch, the first senior Pol Pot cadre to face a U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal in Cambodia. Here are some facts about the Khmer Rouge and how Cambodia is...

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...Monday accused the regime's jailer of duping Cambodia's war crimes court with "crocodile tears" as he faces final arguments over "Killing Fields" atrocities. Former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch -- has apologised...

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Lawyers for Khmer Rouge victims have accused the regime's jailer of duping Cambodia's war crimes court with "crocodile tears" over "Killing Fields" atrocities. Former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - has apologised...

In this article: Khmer Rouge, Tuol Sleng prison, Crocodile, Pol Pot, Killing Fields, Cambodia, Allegation, and Cadre

...war crimes court on Monday began final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago. Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch -- has apologised for his...

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...victims, most of them tortured and forced to confess to spying and other crimes before they were bludgeoned to death in the country's "Killing Fields" execution sites. But he denies personally killing or torturing prisoners and said he...

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The wall of a temple a near Angkor Wat. Age means many of the temples are in various states of disrepair. Skulls in the stupa at the Killing Fields outside the capital Phnom Penh. At least 200,000 people were executed by the Khmer Rouge...

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...when the Vietnamese army overthrew the Khmer Rouge, an estimated 2 million people died of starvation or were killed by Pol Pot's henchmen. The Killing Fields, 16 kilometres south-west of Phnom Penh, was the largest of the country's 343...

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