Kaing guek eav biography sample

Kaing Guek Eav, the former schoolteacher known as Duch who became the most notorious killer during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia in the s.

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Kang Kek Iew, also spelled Kaing Guek Eav alias Comrade Duch or Hang Pin, was a Cambodian convicted war criminal and member of the Khmer Rouge movement.

Kaing Guek Eav oversaw Phnom Penh's notorious S prison, where thousands of people were executed and tortured during the Khmer Rouge's.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as Cambodians.

Kang Kek Iew, also spelled Kaing Guek Eav alias Comrade Duch or Hang Pin, was a Cambodian convicted war criminal and member of the Khmer Rouge movement..

Kang Kek Iew

Cambodian security official and war criminal (1942–2020)

Kang Kek Iew, also spelled Kaing Guek Eav (Khmer: កាំង ហ្គេកអ៊ាវ[kaŋgeːk.ʔiəw]; 17 November 1942 – 2 September 2020),^[1]aliasComrade Duch (Khmer: សមមិត្តឌុច[samamɨtɗuc]) or Hang Pin, was a Cambodian convicted war criminal and member of the Khmer Rouge movement, which ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.

As the Chairman of Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp, and head of the Santebal, Kang Kek Iew was responsible for the interrogation and torture of thousands of individuals, and was convicted for the execution of at least 12,272 individuals, including women and children,^[2] but up to 14,000 in total could have died under his oversight.^[3]

He was the first Khmer Rouge leader to be tried by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime,^[4] and was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, an