UN-backed tribunal finds Khmer Rouge prison chief guilty of war crimes

United Nations, New York, 26 July 2010 - Three decades after nearly 2 million people perished under Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, a United Nations-backed tribunal issued its first verdict today, finding the former head of a notorious detention camp guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, who ran the Tuol Sleng or S-21 camp, was sentenced to 35 years in prison by the trial chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). An estimated 15,000 people were unlawfully detained, subjected to inhumane conditions and forced labour, tortured and executed at that camp in the late 1970s. News Story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35425&Cr=cambodia&Cr1=