KR member admits to murdering 4 Westerners
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THE first member of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge regime jailed for the 1970s “Killing Fields” atrocities admitted yesterday to brutally murdering four unidentified Westerners and burning their bodies with piles of tires.
Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch,” is testifying at an international tribunal’s long-running second case against the deputies of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, whose four-year reign of terror in pursuit of a peasant utopia killed at least 1.8 million Cambodians.
Duch said “Brother No. 2” Nuon Chea had personally instructed him to execute four Westerners, including two Americans, at a school that was turned into a torture center, where more than 14,000 people were killed.
He said the foreigners were killed because they had trespassed into Cambodian waters. The identity of the foreigners remains unknown.
“They were interrogated and smashed per instruction,” Duch, 73, told the court.
“They had to be burnt to ashes so there is no evidence that foreigners were smashed by us.”
Most of the Khmer Rouge victims died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labor camps, or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions carried out across the country.
Nuon Chea and former head of state Khieu Samphan are on trial at the UN-backed court for war crimes and genocide. Now in their 80s and in declining health, they were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014.
Their complex case was divided into two to ensure justice is done while they are still alive. Two co-defendants, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, are dead.
Pol Pot died in 1998.
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