Khmer Rouge prison boss details regime purges [-Duch was a snitch?]

28/4/2009AFP
The former Khmer Rouge prison chief told Cambodia’s war crimes trial yesterday how staff at his jail were killed for any minor mistakes they made while performing their jobs.Duch—whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav—apologised last month when his trial started, accepting blame for overseeing the extermination of around 15,000 people when he ran Tuol Sleng prison.He said yesterday that he would report to his superiors any minor mistakes by staff members at Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21. Regime leaders would then order the workers and their families killed, he said.