Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, during his trial at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal in this file photo. (Photo by: AFP/ECCC pool)Friday, 29 May 2009
Written by Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post
Expert tells court 'techniques' more brutal than other centres.
AMERICAN specialist Craig Etcheson sought to dispute defence arguments that Duch was a scapegoat for the wrongs of the Khmer Rouge regime, telling the UN-backed war crimes court Thursday that the torture techniques used at S-21 were more horrendous than those at other security offices throughout the country.
Speaking at the trial of former S-21 chief Kaing Guek Eav, Etcheson, who is currently an investigator with the co-prosecutors, said that at zone-level security offices and the security offices situated in the regime's lower echelons, the main torture techniques were "whipping, suffocation with a plastic bag and electrocution".
However at S-21, methods such as "burning, removing fingernails and toenails, putting salt or saltwater on wounds, tormenting people with poisonous insects", were used.
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