'Killing Fields' Trial: The Hurt, the pain and the Tear

A photographer takes a picture of a live feed of French psychologist Francoise Sironi-Guilbaud and Cambodian Ka Sunbaunat (R), dean of medicine at the university of heath sciences, during the trial of former Khmer Rouge cadre Duch by a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh September 1, 2009. Psychological experts told the Khmer Rouge tribunal that "denial and disempathy but not mental illness" were at the core of Duch's apparent cruelty. The former head of S-21 was incapable of sympathizing with the thoughts and feeling of detainees yet he remained a sane man who was aware of the seriousness of the crime committed under his watch, Sironi-Guilbaud said, according to local media.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea



A photographer takes a picture of a live feed of French psychologist Francoise Sironi-Guilbaud during the trial of former Khmer Rouge cadre Duch by a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh September 1, 2009. Psychological experts told the Khmer Rouge tribunal that "denial and disempathy but not mental illness" were at the core of Duch's apparent cruelty. The former head of S-21 was incapable of sympathizing with the thoughts and feeling of detainees yet he remained a sane man who was aware of the seriousness of the crime committed under his watch, Sironi-Guilbaud said, according to local media.REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea



Cambodian farmer, Sek Aun, 42, cries in front of a photo pf her father who was a former prisoner of Khmer Rouge's S-21 prison during the Khmer Rouge regime, at the prison, now turned to Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Lawyers representing victims of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime boycotted a tribunal trying its leaders after being barred Monday from questioning a defendant about his personality and state of mind. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)



Cambodian farmer, Leang Korn, 56, cries in front of a portrait of her nephew who was a former prisoner of the Khmer Rouge's S-21 prison during the Khmer Rouge regime at the prison, now turned to Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Lawyers representing victims of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime boycotted a tribunal trying its leaders after being barred Monday from questioning a defendant about his personality and state of mind.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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