Comrade Duch The Bookkeeper of Death

On 28 February 2009 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch appeared in the ECCC courtroom and made a twohour speech where he asked for forgiveness for the appalling torture and execution of at least 13000 prisoners at Tuol Sleng and probably more in the security camps of M13 and M99 Until this date with the exception of a handful of judges lawyers and a priest he had not been seen or heard of for the last thirty years How did a man known to be kind and generous to fellow students possibly transform himself into Comrade Duch the Khmer Rouges infamous executioner This documentary revisits and searches for clues Storyville