Kang Kek Iew
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Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev, also romanized as Kaing Guek Eav (Khmer: កាំង ហ្គេកអ៊ាវ), nom de guerre Comrade Duch or Deuch (មិត្តឌុច); or Hang Pin, (17 November 1942 – 2 September 2020)[1] was a Cambodian war criminal. He was leader in the Khmer Rouge movement, which ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
He was responsible for the Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp where thousands were held for interrogation and torture, after which many of these prisoners were eventually executed.
Kek Iew died at the age of 77 at a hospital in Phnom Penh on 2 September 2020.[2] The cause of death was lung disease.[3]
Kang Kek Iew Media
Kang before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on 20 July 2009. He was responding to the testimony given by his former subordinate Him Huy who was a Khmer Rouge prison guard.
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References
- ↑ Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-313-34642-2. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ↑ "Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77". Associated Press. 2020-09-02. https://apnews.com/6c76f8aa42cadf006fe6fcc84f2a1d0b. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ↑ Duch, Prison Chief Who Slaughtered for the Khmer Rouge, Is Dead at 77 at The New York Times