The Khmer Rouge commander Kaing Guek Eav, known as “Comrade Duch” has died. He oversaw the killing of at least 14,000 Cambodians. Cambodian-American Putsata Reang was in the courtroom during his Duch’s trial. She tells The World’s Carol Hills that the trauma of those deaths lives on in generations of Cambodians, at home and abroad.
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