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Comrade Duch: Jailer and executioner for Khmer Rouge died in prison last week

One question hovered above the trial: the source of the evil as he himself described it that could have compelled him to scribble on a list of 17 children, Kill them all.

How do human beings become part of a project of mass murder? asked Alexander Laban Hinton, the author of Man or Monster? (2016), a book about Duch. It s too easy to dismiss people as sociopaths or psychos. Instead you really have to grapple with their humanity.

via hotair.com

Good riddance but he should have been shot decades ago.