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Vann Nath the 65 year old Cambodian painter, artist, human rights activist and recipient of the prestigious Lillian Hellman/Hammett Award for his outspoken advocacy for justice to victims of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge has died. Nath had survived along with six others from the Toul Sleng prison where over a period of three years over 15,000 people were executed. The prison was a former school used to torture the prisoners before being taken out to the ‘Killing Fields’ where the prisoners were killed with a savage blow to the back of the neck. Nath had managed to survive due to his portraiture skills in painting the Khmer Rouge leaders including the infamous Pol Pot. Nath a former Buddhist monk was awarded the Lillian Hellman/Hammett Award for recognition of his courage in the face of political persecution.

 

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Kang Kek Lew formerly known by his pseudonym as comrade Duch, the 68 year old former leader in the Khmer Rouge communist regime who headed up the infamous Tuol sleng death prison in Phnom Penh during the 1970’s holocaust inflicted upon the people of Cambodia known as the ‘killing fields’, has lodged an appeal against his 35 year imprisonment sentence for crimes against humanity including murder and torture. Lew, had made a statement during his trial, accepting responsibility for torturing and executing 12,000 inmates, expressing "heartfelt sorrow" for his crimes, pleading to be released from further imprisonment as he had cooperated fully with the inquiry. Lew had testified at the trial that US policies in the 1970s under Nixon and Kissinger contributed to the rise to power of the brutal Khmer Rouge. Inspired by Zoe Daniel ow.ly/4qbc8 image source Wikipedia ow.ly/4qbbB Heartfelt sorrow for his crimes against humanity (March 31 2011)

Kang Kek Lew formerly known by his pseudonym as comrade Duch, the 68 year old former leader in the Khmer Rouge communist regime who headed up the infamous Tuol sleng death prison in Phnom Penh during the 1970’s holocaust inflicted upon the people of Cambodia known as the ‘killing fields’, has lodged an appeal against his 35 year imprisonment sentence for crimes against humanity including murder and torture. Lew, had made a statement during his trial, accepting responsibility for torturing and executing 12,000 inmates, expressing “heartfelt sorrow” for his crimes, pleading to be released from further imprisonment as he had cooperated fully with the inquiry. Lew had testified at the trial that US policies in the 1970s under Nixon and Kissinger contributed to the rise to power of the brutal Khmer Rouge.

 

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