Death of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge executioner means little to young generation

FILE PHOTO: A visitor walks past a picture of Kaing Guek Eav, alias "Duch", a prison commander for the Khmer Rouge regime who died on Sept. 2, at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia June 1, 2016. REUTERS/Samrang Pring/File Photo/File Photo

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - For survivors of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, the death of the group's executioner and security chief, known as Comrade Duch, has brought a further, small sense, of justice for their enduring suffering.

But for many younger people, awareness of an episode that destroyed Cambodia and horrified the world is fading in a country where the bulk of its 16 million people were born well after the fall of the regime more than 40 years ago.