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In this March 30, 2009, file photo, former Khmer Rouge prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also know as Duch looks on during the first full day of a U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison, died at a hospital in Cambodia early Wednesday morning, Sept. 2, 2020. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Mak Remissa/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77

By Sopheng Cheang and Jerry Harmer - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26, 2010, file photo, a photographer takes pictures from a television screen of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst &quot;enemies&quot; of the state, at the press center of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Duch has been hospitalized with serious respiratory problems. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Ex-Khmer Rouge jailer hospitalized in serious condition

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