Kang Kek Iew

Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev, also romanized as Kaing Guek Eav , nom de guerre Comrade Duch or Deuch or Hang Pin, is a war criminal and former leader in the Khmer Rouge movement, which ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979. As the head of the governments internal security branch, he oversaw the Tuol Sleng prison camp where thousands were held for interrogation and torture. He was the first Khmer Rouge leader to be tried by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the crimes of the regime, and was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, and torture for his role during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia and sentenced toyears imprisonment. OnFebruary 2012, his sentence was extended to life imprisonment by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

Kang Kek Iew was born in Choyaot village, Kampong Chen subdistrict, Kampong Thom Province, and is of ChineseKhmer ancestry. A star pupil in his school, he passed his Brevet dEtudes Secondaire de Premire in 1961 at the age of nineteen. He finished the first half of his Baccalaureate in 1962 at the Lyce Suravarman II in the town of Siem Reap. The same year he was offered a place in the prestigious Lyce Sisowath in Phnom Penh where he completed his Baccalaureate in mathematics, scoring second in the entire country.

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