Prosecutors demand life for Khmer Rouge prison chief

Updated November 26, 2009 13:54:30

The first defendant in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trials has made a final plea for clemency as lawyers wind up the case against him.

Kaing Guek Eav better known as Comrade Duch says he admitted to his crimes and apologised to the Cambodian people, in the interest of national reconciliation. But prosecutors say he's only partly confessed, and they want him jailed for forty years.

Presenter: Zoe Daniel
Speakers: Kaing Guek Eav, S21 prison chief; William Smith, prosecutor; Chim En, Khmer Rouge victim; Karim Khan, civil parties barrister