Kaing Guek Eav is an elderly former math teacher and a born-again Christian.
Former Khmer Rouge leader goes on trial in Cambodia
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Former Khmer Rouge leader to go on trial in Cambodia
Kaing Guek Eav is an elderly former math teacher and a born-again Christian. He is also — prosecutors contend — a former prison chief with Cambodia’s ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge movement who oversaw the torture and killing of more than 15,000 men, women and children three decades ago
Three quit in wake of helicopter prison break
The director of a maximum-security prison and two of his colleagues resigned Monday after two inmates escaped by helicopter. The Greek minister of justice, Nicholas Dendias, said he had asked for and received the resignations of the director, security secretary and head of inspection and control at Korydallos Prison, in a suburb of Athens. “The government will not tolerate the current situation,” he said in a written statement