Prosecutors asked Cambodia's war crimes court to hand a 40-year jail sentence to Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief. Duch, who stands accused of overseeing 15,000 deaths, gives his closing remarks to the court.
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court against the former prison chief "Duch" continued Tuesday, with prosecutors calling for the defendant to be handed a lengthy jail term.
In this edition, Duch, the former prison chief in charge of the Khmer Rouge's main torture centre is put on trial. What was is role during Pol Pot's regime? Who is this 67-year-old former maths teacher?
An investigation into a little known legacy of the Khmer Rouge regime: children born from the hundreds of thousands of forced marriages in an effort to “further the glory” of Cambodia.
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court on Monday began final arguments in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago.
Cambodian officials have formally refused to extradite fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra (pictured) to Thailand. Cambodia's appointment of Thaksin as economic adviser to the government has stoked tension between the two countries.
Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in Cambodia to take up his new job as the government's economic adviser. His appointment has sparked fury in Thailand, where he has been sentenced in absentia to two years in jail ofor graft.
Thailand has threatened to scrap a deal on developing energy reserves with Cambodia a day after both nations recalled their ambassadors in a row over Phnom Penh's appointment of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra (pictured) as economics adviser.
Some 30 years after the hardline communist regime fell, Duch, a notorious camp commandant, is the first high-ranking Khmer Rouge official to be tried in the UN-backed war crimes court.
