Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, given a life sentence in 2012 for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at a torture center he ran, died early Wednesday, a special Cambodian court said. He was 77.Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, died at 12:50 a.m. at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in the capital, less than two days after being admitted, Neth Pheaktra, spokesman of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, told Kyodo News.The cause of death was chronic lung disease, which had caused breathing difficulties, according to a telegram communication between a p…READ FULL ARTICLE
