By Paul Chesser on 6.9.09 @ 11:23AM
The
fascinating trial of the Khmer Rouge's top jailer, Comrade
Duch,
continues, with him refuting yesterday evidence that would
have spared him at least a little culpability.
The
fascinating trial of the Khmer Rouge's top jailer, Comrade
Duch,
continues, with him refuting yesterday evidence that would
have spared him at least a little culpability. He would have none
of it:
Duch went on to dispute testimony from last month in which
an American expert witness presented a list of prisoners who
appeared to have been released from Tuol Sleng (the Phnom Penh
prison where an estimated 17,000 began their path to
execution).
"The people who were arrested and sent (to Tuol Sleng),
they were all killed," Duch said, refuting the idea that the
list cast him in a more favourable light.
"I did not release anyone... It is not exculpatory evidence
at all because I am responsible for my crimes. I cannot accept
that document," he added.
Duch also explained that Cambodian dictator Pol Pot mixed a
vicious cocktail of the communist theories of Marx, Lenin, and
China's "Gang of Four." This may have been the most evil regime
ever, but then again, who keeps tallies of such things?
topics:
genocide
