Duch, Master Of The Forges Of Hell

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed to the S21 centre in Phnom Penh. In 2009, Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organisation to be brought before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Duch reveals here how he considers that he fully carried out his mission, and the reasons which led him to command M13 and then S21.