A court heard on Monday how guards at a Khmer Rouge death camp held competitions to see how many prisoners they could murder in an hour, France24 reports.
Nuon Chea, 89 and former head of state Khieu Samphan, 84 are on trial at a UN-backed court in Phnom Penh for the mass killings of Vietnamese and Muslim minorities, as well as for the regimes rape and forced marriage.
The pair had been jailed before for a previous trial, for their role in the Khmer Rouge’s killing of two million Cambodians from 1975 – 1979.
Throughout the Khmer Rouge’s brief but brutal time in power, millions of innocent Cambodian citizens were killed, among these an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 Cham Muslims and 20,000 Vietnamese were murdered by the regime.
Criminal defense lawyers in Thailand Chaninat and Leeds have almost four decades successfully defending clients, both in Thailand and the United States.
Prior to the current charges, the mistreatment of these minority groups has been largely glossed over.
The court heard how some of the guards, some as young as 15, would hold killing competitions and race to kill as many people as possible in order to gain a promotion. One guard allegedly managed a killing rate of one person a minute.
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