法庭判处红色高棉监狱头目入狱19年 Court Sentences Khmer Rouge Prison Chief to 19 Years
联合国支持的柬埔寨战争罪法庭裁定一名前红色高棉官员康克由犯有多项反人类罪，判处他19年徒刑。
前红色高棉监狱头目康克由，别名“杜赫”，他的刑期被缩短，致使受害者的亲属非常愤怒，痛哭流涕。至少有1万4千人死于康克由管理的臭名昭著的波布监狱，其中很多人曾遭受酷刑。
检察官要求判处他40年徒刑。但这个包含外国法官的法院考虑到被告表示忏悔、与法庭合作，以及已经被押时间等减刑条件，判处他35年徒刑，并又将刑期缩短为19年。
在5位红色高棉高级领导人中，杜赫是第一个因为参与上个世纪70年代大屠杀而受到审判的人。红色高棉领导人波尔布特死于1998年。
A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia has found a former Khmer Rouge official guilty of numerous crimes against humanity, and ordered him to spend 19 years in prison.
The reduced sentence provoked tears and expressions of outrage from relatives of the victims of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as "Duch." At least 14,000 people died, many after being tortured, at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison which he ran.
Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year sentence. But the court, which included foreign judges, handed down a sentence of 35 years and then reduced it to 19. The judges cited mitigating circumstances, such as an expression of remorse, cooperation with the court and time served.
Duch is the first of five senior Khmer Rouge officials to stand trial for his part in the genocide committed in the 1970s. Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.