This is the final episode in a series of weekly video updates about Case 001 in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT), currently under way in Cambodia. In the first case, starting March 2009, Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch,” admitted that he ran the Khmer Rouge’s notorious S-21 interrogation center. After more than six months of [...]
After a three-day hearing at the ECCC (28, 29, 30 March 2011), the seven Supreme Court judges retired to consider appeals against sentence and verdict by prosecution and defence lawyers. They also heard appeals by some civil parties on various legal matters. In Episode 27, Presenters Neth Pheaktra and Tan Tepkanika summarize, analyse and discuss [...]
A month after the Duch’s verdict and sentence were announced, Episode 26 wraps up the ‘Duch on Trial’ series. Presenters Neth Pheaktra and Tan Tepkanika put questions to various contributors about what lessons are to be learned from Case 001 (trial of Kaing Guek Eav, head of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious S-21 interrogation center) by [...]
Episode #25 shows the reactions of villagers in Pailin province (about 370 kms to the North West of capital Phnom Penh) to the verdicts and sentence recently announced in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch”. In his testimony, Duch admitted that, as head of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious S-21 interrogation center, he was [...]
This is episode #24 in a series of weekly video updates about the first Khmer Rouge trial proceedings recently concluded in Cambodia. This episode shows the reactions of villagers in Kandal province (about 50 kms from capital Phnom Penh) to the verdicts and sentence recently announced in the case of Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch”. [...]
