Khmer Rouge prison chief found guilty(20100802)

Comrade Duch had (painted) himself as a man who was only following orders. He said his family would have been (killed) if he hadn't carried out his gruesome work at the S-21 detention centre. But the (judges) ruled otherwise. They said he was personally (responsible) for the atrocities at S-21.
Thousands of (supposed) enemies of the Khmer Rouge revolution were tortured and (murdered) there. The judges reiterated the details: pulling out toenails, water torture, electric shocks.
Hundreds of Cambodians who lived through the (horrors) of the Pol Pot era were in court. It's the first time a (significant) Khmer Rouge figure has been held to (account). As many as two million Cambodians died because of forced (labour), starvation and (summary) executions.

Guy de Launey, BBC News, Phnom Penh