Court hears Khmer Rouge testimony

After months of pre-trial hearings, the former prison chief known as Comrade Duch listened while a court official read out the charges against him.
He is accused of crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder for his alleged role in the deaths of more than 10,000 people.
The Khmer Rouge killed up to two million people in less than four years.
Forgiveness?
The UN-backed trial first opened in Phnom Penh last month, but this is the first day that proceedings have properly got under way.
Duch, whose really name is Kaing Guek Eav, is the first Khmer Rouge leader to face the tribunal - with four more of the regime's senior figures in custody and awaiting trial.
He is the only one who has admitted his part in the atrocities and asked for forgiveness from his victims. Duch cuts an unassuming figure these days, according to the BBC correspondent at the tribunal, Guy De Launey.

Now a slight grey-haired 66-year-old, the former prison warder politely confirmed his name and family details at the start of the court session, then asked for permission to sit down.
But the charges against him are grave, and when the prosecutors read out the long indictment against him, it was full of gruesome details.
It described medieval methods of torture and execution allegedly carried out by Duch when he was in charge of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison.
"Several witnesses said that prisoners were killed using steel clubs, cart axles, and water pipes to hit the base of their necks," the indictment said.
Duch's job was to extract confessions from prisoners of counter-revolutionary activity, but "every prisoner who arrived at S-21 [Tuol Sleng] was destined for execution", the document said.
Duch has previously told investigators he had not wanted to take charge of the prison, but feared for his own life if he did not follow orders.
He said he knew that inmates were being tortured but did not participate himself.