What is Kang Kek Iew?
[[File:Kang_Kek_Iew_(Kaing_Guek_Eav_or_Duch)_before_the_Extraordinary_Chambers_in_the_Courts_of_Cambodia_-_20091126.jpg|right|200px]] '''Kang Kek Iew''' or '''Kaing Kek Iev''', also [[Romanization of Khmer|romanized]] as '''Kaing Guek Eav''' ({{lang-km|កាំង ហ្គេកអ៊ាវ}}), ''[[Nom de guerre#Nom de guerre|nom de guerre]]'' Comrade '''Duch''' or '''Deuch''' (មិត្តឌុច); or Hang Pin, (17 November 1942 – 2 September 2020)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Totten|first1=Samuel|last2=Bartrop|first2=Paul Robert|last3=Jacobs |first3=Steven L.|title=Dictionary of Genocide: A-L|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWKjSc0ql3cC&pg=PA82|access-date=12 October 2010|year=2008|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-34642-2|page=82}}</ref> was a Cambodian [[War crime|war criminal]]. He was leader in the [[Khmer Rouge]] movement, which ruled [[Democratic Kampuchea]] from 1975 to 1979. He was responsible for the [[Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum|Tuol Sleng]] (S-21) [[prison]] camp where thousands were held for interrogation and [[torture]], after which many of these prisoners were eventually executed. Kek Iew died at the age of 77 at a hospital in [[Phnom Penh]] on 2 September 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-09-02 |title=Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77 |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/6c76f8aa42cadf006fe6fcc84f2a1d0b |access-date=2020-09-02}}</ref> The cause of death was [[lung disease]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/world/asia/duch-kaing-guek-eav-dead.html Duch, Prison Chief Who Slaughtered for the Khmer Rouge, Is Dead at 77] at ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kek Iew, Kang}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Communist Party of Kampuchea politicians]] [[Category:Asian military people]] [[Category:Deaths from lung disease]] {{bio-stub}}