A prominent member of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime on Tuesday for the first time publicly accepted responsibility and apologised for his role in a regime that killed one in every four of the country’s population.
Kaing Guek Eav ran Security Centre 21, where an estimated 17,000 men, women and children were “smashed” – the Khmer Rouge’s chilling euphemism for torturing and murdering victims -- as part of the regime’s attempt to create a perfect agrarian society.
