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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 01-04-2009 | 
Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). 01/04/2009: Third day of the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, at the ECCC.
©John Vink/ Magnum
After having publicly apologised at the hearing the day before, Duch, the former head of the S-21 Khmer Rouge security centre, requested his release via his lawyer. The Defence, as they announced it, went back on Wednesday April 1st, the third day of the trial, over the question of the provisional detention of their client, “well beyond the acceptable time limits”. “Ten years in provisional detention: can we still call it provisional?”, Duch’s French co-Lawyer François Roux wondered. He added that this was a violation of the defendant’s rights and that it must be rectified.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 01-04-2009 | 
Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) 31/03/2009: Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, former head of the S-21 interrogation centre during the Khmer Rouge regime, on the second day of his trial at the ECCC, admitting responsibility for crimes committed.
©John Vink/ Magnum
Tuesday March 31st, the second day of the trial of former Khmer Rouge Duch who ran the S-21 security centre, was marked by the latter's public apology. His lawyers, before engaging into their Opening Statements in the afternoon, requested that their client be able to express himself “as of now”. The request was accepted. Duch, serious and assertive, stood up, placed his hand on the table and read out in limpid Khmer denoting the background of an educated man a document which quickly turned out to be a request for forgiveness.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 31-03-2009 |  Kambol (Cambodia, Phnom Penh). March 30th 2009: Journalist during the reading of the accusations against Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, on the first day of his trial at the ECCC. ©John Vink/ Magnum
At the Khmer Rouge court, the first day of the substantive trial of Duch - the former director of the detention and interrogation centre S-21- was mainly marked on Monday March 30th by the analysis of facts and charges written down in the Closing Order of the co-Investigating Judges (Closing Order dated August 8th 2008 and amended by the pre-Trial Chamber on December 5th 2008). The hearing barely lasted four hours. The elements that were read out about S-21, the “smash the enemy” policy, the political line of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) behind the Khmer Rouge decision-making bodies and the description of conditions of detention of prisoners and torture sessions left the former revolutionary torturer unmoved.
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| By John Vink/ Magnum | | | 29-03-2009 | Tini Tinou Parade
Multimedia slideshow about the Tini Tinou Parade in Phnom Penh. Images and sound by John Vink / Magnum
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 27-03-2009 |  Phnom Penh (Cambodia), 20/03/ 2009. Law students having their annual moot court at law school. The focus case in the final competition is the Khmer Rouge. ©Vandy Rattana
The Khmer Rouge tribunal found itself in the dock at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh. Depending on the side they were told to work on, students had to defend it or condemn it, as part of the first edition of their moot court. Debates were held in French – to celebrate the “Fête de la francophonie” – a detail which often added heaviness to the language of these would-be jurists, who stretched arguments they took here and there in the media, using relevant but also disturbing reasoning sometimes. We attended three of the sparring matches including the final, presided over in the jury by co-Investigating Judge at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Marcel Lemonde.
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