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"FACTORY OF DEATH" OPERATOR GETS LIFE

Duch sentenced to life in prison

The man who ran the Khmer Rouge regime's "factory of death" will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, prison chief at the notorious S-21 detention facility, had his prison sentence increased to life in an appeal ruling today by the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s highest judiciary chamber.

Duch had originally been sentenced to 35 years in prison by the Trial Chamber, of which he was slated to serve about 19 years behind bars. Read the full story

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