Thirty years after the murderous Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, killed up to two million fellow Cambodians, the United Nations-backed trials continue in Phnom Penh.
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture photo blog features images from the trials and related locations. Seth Mydans, who has reported from Southeast Asia for decades for the New York Times, has been covering the trials and surrounds stories. His latest, “Trials in Cambodia Expose the Cogs in a Killing Machine”, is in the paper here.
Last month, Kaing Guek Eav – known as Duch – who headed the notorious Toul Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, faced the tribunal accused of presiding over the murder and torture of at least 15,000 inmates. So far, he is the highest ranking official of the former regime to face trial. Other leaders of the Khmer Rouge are in custody but officials say they may not face trial until next year. Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, died in the jungle in 1998.
The English-language portal for the trial website is here.
Skulls of victims from the Khmer Rouge killing fields on display in Cambodia. (Photo by Scott Anger)
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