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Article: For former Khmer Rouge prisoners, reparations are key to justice.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- July 3, 2009
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Byline: Stephen Kurczy Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Phnom Penh -- Thirty years after their torture inside the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, two elderly Cambodians finally got their day in court as a cash-strapped tribunal attempts to bring justice to victims of one of the 20th century's most serious atrocities.
"I was beaten for 12 days and 12 nights," Chum Mey, one of the former prisoners, told the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Tuesday, detailing how guards pulled out two of his toenails and electrocuted him in 1978.
"I have a lot of scars on my back as evidence of that torture," Bou Meng, the other former ...