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| |  | | Guek Eav Kaing | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Investigations underway | | particulars : | Detained by Cambodian authorities since 1999; first court appearance before the Extraordinary Chambers for the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge on 31 July 2007; placed under provisional detention by the ECCC; hearing of appeal against his provisional detention scheduled for 20 November 2007; separation of his case decided on 19 September 2007; appeal for bail rejected on 3 December 2007 | | position : | Director of the Tuol Sleng detention and torture center |
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| | | | Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, was born around 1942. He taught mathematics and was drawn toward Communism by a group of Chinese exchange students at the University of Phnom Penh.
Arrested by Sihanouk's police as a "Communist", he was held without trial for several months. Soon after Sihanouk was overthrown, Duch went into the maquis. In the early 1970s, Duch was in charge of security for the Communist Party north of Phnom Penh. The earliest documents connecting Duch with S-21, also called Tuol Sleng – the interrogation and torture center of the Khmer rouge regime – date from October 1975.
As the man in charge of S-21, Duch is alleged to have overseenn the interrogation and torture of suspected traitors. At least 15,000 people were shipped to Tuol Sleng, a former high school, where they were chained to beds, tortured into making false confessions, and executed in a nearby field. His name is on many execution documents, including one ordering the deaths of 17 children whose parents were accused of being spies. Only a handful survived, probably less than ten.
Duch lived close to S-21 with his family and he remained at the prison until the evening of 7 January 1979 when he walked out of Phnom Penh and soon disappeared from sight. In 1996, Duch met some American evangelical missionaries and converted to Christianity. In April 1999, a journalist discovered his past identity. Duch was later interviewed by journalists and spoke freely about his past.
Duch has been detained in a Cambodian military prison since May 1999 when he was arrested by Cambodian Police after a military court had charged him with murder, torture and membership of an outlawed group. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Duch | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh (Cambodia) | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Torture | | | profile last modified : | | | 07.01.2008 |
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