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Global Voices | The Family Man Who Took Part in Cambodia's Killing Fields | PBS

Duration: 02:21
Program: Independent Lens #502
Broadcast Date: May. 20, 2012

Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch) is a Jekyll-and-Hyde character who began as a mathematics teacher, and then became the commandant of Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia, ultimately responsible for the torture and murder of 14,000 people. Comrade Duch recounts his flight, conversion to evangelical Christianity, and how he was finally brought to justice before an international tribunal.

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Post Date: April 25, 2012