WRAP Former Khmer Rouge prison chief is to be transferred to another facility; File

Описание: (31 Jul 2007) SHOTLIST
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Phnom Penh - 31 July 2007
1. Various of military court prison where Duch was held
2. Various of security Cambodian genocide tribunal headquarters in Phnom Penh
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reach Sombat, Genocide Tribunal Spokesman:
"Kaing Khek Iev, known as Duch, was brought to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Tuesday morning for initial questioning by the co-investigating judges."
4. Cambodian flag flying over tribunal headquarters
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reach Sombat, Genocide Tribunal Spokesman:
"He will be interviewed by the co-investigating judges and the co-investigating judges will issue a press statement on Wednesday."
6. Various exteriors of tribunal headquarters
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Location Unknown - Between 1975-1979
7. STILL photo of Kang Kek Iev, better known by his nickname "Duch", taken between 1975-1979, during the days of the Khmer Rouge government
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Samlot, Cambodia - March 1999
8. Various of Duch talking
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Bangkok, Thailand - 27 July 2007
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nic Dunlop, Author of "The Lost Executioner":
"I think there's very little doubt that he's been responsible for a whole range of abuses from torture to executions to not only carrying out orders from above that were given to him but also to act on his own initiative, with his own authority."
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia - March 1999
10. Close of document from S-21, showing a list of prisoners on one day in 1978 - including several children
11. Duch's handwriting and signature on same document, which says "Smash them all!"
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Phnom Penh - March 1999
12. Various of S-21 (also known as "Tuol Sleng"), the secret holding centre in Phnom Penh where alleged enemies of the Khmer Rouge were first tortured then killed - It is now museum dedicated to preserving the memory of what happened under the Khmer Rouge
STORYLINE
A notorious Khmer Rouge prison chief was taken to the Cambodian genocide tribunal headquarters on Tuesday to be questioned by judges investigating crimes committed during the regime's rule in late 1970s, an official said.
Kaing Khek Iev, also known as Duch, who headed the former Khmer Rouge prison S-21 in Phnom Penh - became the first suspect to be questioned by judges of the UN-backed tribunal, said a tribunal spokesman.
"Kaing Khek Iev, known as Duch, was brought to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Tuesday morning for initial questioning by the co-investigating judges," Reach Sombat, a spokesman for the Genocide Tribunal told AP Television.
"He will be interviewed by the co-investigating judges and the co-investigating judges will issue a press statement on Wednesday," Sombat said.
The prison was a virtual slaughterhouse where suspected enemies of the ultra-communists were brutally tortured before being taken out to killing fields near the city.
Officials said Duch was driven in a car escorted by Cambodian government security forces and arrived at the tribunal headquarters shortly after 6:10 a.m. (23:10 GMT).
He was taken from a military prison, where he has been detained since 1999.
Kaing Khek Iev, 62, is among five ex-Khmer Rouge leaders the tribunal's prosecutors have submitted to the co-investigating judges for further investigation.
Some 16,000 people were imprisoned at S-21, now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
Only about a dozen of them are thought to have survived when the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979.
The prosecutors did not reveal the identity of the five suspects, citing confidentiality rule.

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