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An ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief has been charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia. | An ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief has been charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia. |
Kang Kek Ieu, also known as Duch, was in charge of the notorious S21 jail in the country's capital, Phnom Penh. | |
Duch is the first of five suspects whom prosecutors have asked judges to investigate, about deaths under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. | |
As many as two million people are thought to have died during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule. | As many as two million people are thought to have died during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule. |