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Thu 11 Nov 2009Duch was 'obedient machine'
The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer had to "kill or be killed" and operate like an "obedient machine", his lawyer said today in defending the first member of Cambodia's murderous regime to face justice.
In the final two days of testimony in the UN-backed war crimes tribunal, a lawyer for the commander of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison said his client's life was at stake when he ordered the murder of more than 14,000 people in the 1970s.
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