Cambodia: Khmer Rouge genocide suspect asks court to release him (pub. Dec.16, 2009)
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On Nov. 27, Kang Kek Ieu (also known as Comrade Duch), a former leader of the Khmer Rouge regime 1975-79, and former head of the Tuol Sleng interrogation centre in Phnom Penh (the capital), asked the judges of the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to release him from his trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
