PHNOM PENH (AFP)--The Khmer Rouge's torturer-in-chief is expected back in court at the end of March, when Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal resumes its first hearing, according to documents seen Tuesday.
Arguments and testimony in the case against prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, will begin March 30, according to an order signed Monday by trial chamber president Nil Nonn.
The court's long-awaited first trial started last week, but the proceedings were largely limited to lawyers arguing over the use of a film showing the prison that was under Duch's control where more than 15,000 people died.
After those proceedings, Duch's lawyer Francois Roux told reporters his client wished to use the trial to publicly ask his victims for forgiveness.
Before hearings in Duch's trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder resume, judges are expected to rule on admissibility of witness testimony and evidence.
After years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the United Nations, the court was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.
Four other Khmer Rouge leaders are also in detention awaiting trial.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation, disease and overwork under the Khmer Rouge, which attempted to create a communist utopia.
Arguments and testimony in the case against prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, will begin March 30, according to an order signed Monday by trial chamber president Nil Nonn.
The court's long-awaited first trial started last week, but the proceedings were largely limited to lawyers arguing over the use of a film showing the prison that was under Duch's control where more than 15,000 people died.
After those proceedings, Duch's lawyer Francois Roux told reporters his client wished to use the trial to publicly ask his victims for forgiveness.
Before hearings in Duch's trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder resume, judges are expected to rule on admissibility of witness testimony and evidence.
After years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the United Nations, the court was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.
Four other Khmer Rouge leaders are also in detention awaiting trial.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation, disease and overwork under the Khmer Rouge, which attempted to create a communist utopia.
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