Comrade Duch sentenced to 35 years in prison
The brutal Khmer Rouge regime was driven from power in Cambodia thirty years ago. On Monday, Cambodia convicted a major Khmer Rouge figure, Comrade Duch, for his connection with the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979.
Duch had said that his family would have been killed if he hadn’t carried out his gruesome work, but the judge ruled otherwise. Hundreds of Cambodians who lived through the horrors of the Pol Pot era were in court to witness the hearing. BBC reporter Guy de Launey reports from Cambodia on the significant conviction.
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