Cambodia genocide: Khmer Rouge torture prison commander Comrade Duch dies
By DW
05 September 2020 |
5:12 pm
Comrade Duch was a Cambodian war criminal sentenced to life in prison and former head of the Khmer Rouge movement. He died serving a life sentence.
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