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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Convenes 1st Hearing

NPR

Published November 20, 2007 at 6:00 AM EST

Kaing Guek Eav, the former Khmer Rouge interrogator known as Duch, was brought to court in Cambodia for a pretrial hearing, in the first pubic session of the U.N.-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in the 1970s. Duch, 66, is charged with crimes against humanity. He was the head of the Khmer Rouge's notorious torture chamber.

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