Former Khmer Rouge prison chief goes on trial

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Updated March 30, 2009 21:47:32

Thirty years after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime the first testimony begins this week in Cambodia's controversial genocide tribunal. The former commander of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, the man known as Brother Duch, takes the stand. It's a milestone for the long delayed UN-Cambodian tribunal. But it also comes as proceedings against the regime's political leaders, Ieng Sary, Noun Chea, and Khieu Samphan, are delayed for yet another year.

Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speaker: Professor Peter Maguire, author of 'Facing Death In Cambodia', Bard College, New York

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