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Pol Pot prisoner 'woke under dead bodies'

A FORMER fighter for the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s told a Cambodian court today how he was suspected of turning against the Pol Pot regime, arrested and beaten unconscious, waking up beneath bodies in a burial pit.

Phork Khan, 57, was testifying at the trial of Duch, head of the Khmer Rouge's S-21 interrogation center in Phnom Penh, who faces life in prison if convicted on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and homicide.

As the regime purged suspected dissenters, he was arrested in 1978 and detained at S-21.



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