Man or monster? : the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer / Alexander Laban Hinton.
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against hum...
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Table of Contents:
- Man (opening arguments)
- Revolutionary (M-13 prison)
- Subordinate (establishment of S-21)
- Cog (policy and implementation)
- Commandant (functioning of S-21)
- Master (torture and execution)
- Erasure : Duch's apology
- Villain (the civil parties)
- Zealot (prosecution)
- Scapegoat (defense)
- The accused (trial chamber judgment)