200 kids died in Khmer jail
Phnom Penh, 27 July: A former staff member at the main Khmer Rouge torture centre told Cambodia’s war crimes court today that up to 200 children were detained and killed at the regime’s notorious prison.
Sous Thy, 58, was testifying at the UN-backed court against prison chief Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and execution of around 15,000 people held at Tuol Sleng prison, known as S-21, in the late 1970s. The witness, who was assigned to register incoming prisoners, told the court 200 children were separated from their parents who were jailed at Tuol Sleng, but details of the young inmates were not recorded. Once the children entered prison all of them would be killed,” Sous Thy said. “For the (number of) children, though I am not certain, it could have been more than 100 -- up to 200 at the most,” he added. ;AFP
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