Resources: Database Cambodian genocide
Images of genocide victims are displayed on the walls of the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crime. (Photo: Corbis) Phnom Penh - Pol Pot's chief jailer told Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal on Monday that children of inmates at the regime's S-21 prison were murdered to keep them from seeking revenge later in life. Duch, the first of five senior cadres to face trial for the 1975-79 reign of terror in which 1.7 million Cambodians died, said he accepted responsibility for the children's deaths but was following orders. "When children arrived at the center I gave the order to kill »
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