Hundreds gather for Khmer Rouge sentencing
![Comrade Duch listens to closing statements in the courtroom. [Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200911/r477344_2414018.jpg "Comrade Duch listens to closing statements in the courtroom. [Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia]")
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Comrade Duch listens to closing statements in the courtroom. [Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia]
Conor Duffy, Phnom Penh
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Hundreds of people are gathering at a court in Cambodia for the first ever war crimes trial for a Khmer Rouge official.
Comrade Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, has confessed to the torture and murder of more than 12,000 people.
He ran the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh.
Thousands of people were sent there but only eleven left alive.
Prosecutors have asked for a 40 year sentence.
Comrade Duch says he has found God and should be released immediately because he has apologised.
He'll learn his sentence in the next few hours.
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