Kaing Guek Eav, also known as "Duch" sits in the courtroom

A UN backed tribunal in Cambodia has found a former Khmer Rouge prison chief guilty of crimes against humanity. The man best known as Comrade Duch had admitted he oversaw the torture and murder of thousands of people in the late 1970s.

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Comrade Duch had painted himself as a man who was only following orders. He said his family would have been killed if he hadn't carried out his gruesome work at the S-21 detention centre. But the judges ruled otherwise. They said he was personally responsible for the atrocities at S-21.

Thousands of supposed enemies of the Khmer Rouge revolution were tortured and murdered there. The judges reiterated the details: pulling out toenails, water torture, electric shocks.

Hundreds of Cambodians who lived through the horrors of the Pol Pot era were in court. It's the first time a significant Khmer Rouge figure has been held to account. As many as two million Cambodians died because of forced labour, starvation and summary executions.

Reporter:

Guy de Launey, BBC News, Phnom Penh

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painted himself
да претстави одредена слика за себе

gruesome
многу непријатно или шокантно

ruled otherwise
донесе поинаков заклучок, пресуди поинаку

atrocities
екстремно насилни дела, злосторства

supposed
овој збор се користи за да се покаже дека говорникот не верува дека она што следи е вистинито. Овде, дека луѓето биле непријатели на револуцијата на Црвените Кмери

reiterated
да каже нешто повеќе пати, да повтори

era
ера, временски период кога се случиле одредени нешта

significant
важно, значително

held to account
принуден да одговара, да ја преземе одговорноста

forced labour
многу исцрпувачка работа која луѓето ја вршеле наспроти сопствената воља