Kmer Rouge 'torturer' to face witnesses

The long-awaited Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal today wrapped up its opening session with judges saying they still need to finalise the list of witnesses before announcing when the regime’s alleged chief torturer will take the stand.

Kaing Guek Eav – better known as Duch – is charged with crimes against humanity for his role as former head of the S-21 prison and torture centre. He is the first of five defendants who ruled Cambodia in the 1970s and turned it into a vast slave labour camp in which at least 1.7 million people perished.