The Devil Kaing Guek Eav, the former chief of the notorious torture centre Tuol Sleng, will hear the verdict in his trial at a UN-backed tribunal is due to be handed down on July 26, 2010

An Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia-issued photo shows former Khmer Rouge prison chief, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, standing trial in Phnom Penh. Prisoners at the interrogation centre run by Duch suffered beatings, electric shocks to their genitals and had plastic bags tied over their heads, witnesses said during his nine-month trial.(AFP/HO/ECCC/File)

The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are piled up on display at the Choeung Ek memorial near Phnom Penh where the regime executed thousands of people between1975 and 1979. Kaing Guek Eav, the former chief of the notorious torture centre Tuol Sleng, will hear the verdict in his trial at a UN-backed tribunal where witnesses have recounted the horrors of a place from which almost no one came out alive. (AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)

Cambodians are seen entering the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav in Phnom Penh.Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge regime emptied the country's cities in a bid to forge a communist utopia between 1975-1979 during which up to two million people died of starvation, overwork and torture or were executed. (AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

A foreign tourist looks at portraits of victims of the Khmer Rouge at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh. Prosecutors assert the facility, alsoknown as S-21, was the regime's main killing apparatus among 198 prisons throughout Cambodia. (AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

Tourists look at a photograph of Khmer Rouge chief torturer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, at the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh July 22, 2010. A verdictin the trial of Duch, who ran S-21 and has faced charges of crimes against humanity, is due to be handed down on July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Som Rorn, 65, a villager from Kampong Chhnang visits S-21 torture prison for the first time in Phnom Penh July 22, 2010. Som Rorn said a total of 12 relatives,including her husband, had been killed and starved to death by the Khmer Rouge. A verdict in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran S-21 as the regime's chief torturer and has faced charges of crimes against humanity, is due to be handed down on July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodians tour the former Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22,2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

 

A Cambodian man touches leg restraints displayed at the the former Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in PhnomPenh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian visitors listen to a guide as they tour the former Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh,Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chum Mey, a survivor of the S-21 prison during the Khmer Rouge regime, walks near a portrait of Noun Chea, left, a former Khmer Rouge leader and righthand man to dictator Pol Pot, at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, formerly the regime's notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison looks out a barbed wire window as he tours the prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocidemuseum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison gestures as he tours the prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh,Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)