Phnom Penh: The former chief interrogator and torturer for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge has been discharged from hospital after a health scare that lasted weeks, an official said.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, is serving a life sentence for managing the Phnom Penh detention centre S-21 where some 15,000 people were confined and sent to their deaths in nearby “Killing Fields” in the late 1970s.
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