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Comrade Duch: The Bookkeeper of Death, Sunday on Global Voices
May 18, 2012The ITVS-funded documentary by Adrian Maben premieres Sunday, May 20 on Global Voices on the WORLD Channel. 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: The…
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On the Scene at a War Criminal’s Conviction
August 11, 2010The ITVS-funded film-in-progress Comrade Duch tells the story of the gifted Cambodian mathematician turned mass killer Kaing Guek Eav and the trial to bring him to justice. Filmmaker Adrian Maben was outside the courtroom last month when Duch was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years in prison. When I started to work on…
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The Trials of Comrade Duch
July 27, 2010Much ado about the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav — known by his Khmer Rouge nickname "Comrade Duch" — to 35 years in prison (to be reduced to 19 considering time served) on July 26 in Phnom Penh by a United Nations-led tribunal. The verdict and sentence shocked many Cambodians who remember Duch's reign of terror as a remorseless prison chief in charge of…