KRouge prison head has no mental problems: experts

Source: AFP

PHNOM PENH — Mental health experts told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Monday that the Khmer Rouge's main prison chief has no mental disorders despite having overseen the killing of thousands of people.

French psychologist Francoise Sironi-Guilbaud and Cambodian psychiatrist Kar Sunbaunat were testifying at the trial of Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and execution of some 15,000 people at Tuol Sleng prison.

"Is Duch suffering from a mental disorder? No, we have detected no mental disorder in the accused," Sironi-Guilbaud told the tribunal.

The expert went on to say that Duch, who worked as a maths teacher before the late 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, lived with disappointment but lacked sympathy for others.

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But not uncriminal.

Just saying that a lot of us have a fairly non-trivial perspective failure about such things these days. I maintain that Cheney's tame and mild compared to agents of a regime which made it a capital crime to wear eyeglasses and which exterminated a fifth or so of its own people because of such ideas.