6/27/2023 0 Comments The Lost Executioner by Nic Dunlop![]() ![]() Dunlop visited Cambodia a number of times. Question: Where do people like Comrade Duch come from? He was looking for context, and an answer to the But as a teenager, he said, he was drawn to the tragedy of Cambodia. He was only 10 years old when the Khmer Rouge were driven from power. Which was translated into Khmer and sold in Cambodia in manuscript format. ![]() Dunlop chronicled his story, and Duch’s, in the 2005 book, “ The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields,” Dunlop to capture the confession on film. Serve 19 years in prison - 35 years minus 16 years for time already served.Īll of it is the result of a chance encounter that allowed Mr. On Monday, a United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh found Duch guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes. In the more than 30 years since the killings, he is the first senior member of the Khmer Rouge to be tried. Duch was responsible for the torture and killing of more than 14,000 peopleĪt Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. ![]() Khmer Rouge regime, during which 1.7 million people were killed outright or died as a result of torture, disease, overwork and starvation. The man pictured, Kaing Guek Eav - more commonly known as Comrade Duch - was a senior official of the It is a simple caption: “Comrade Duch confesses to mass murder.”įor Nic Dunlop, who took the photograph in Cambodia in 1999, it was the culmination of years of obsession. Nic Dunlop/Panos Comrade Duch confesses to mass murder. ![]()
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