The World - News from June 3, 1987

Amnesty International charged that thousands of political prisoners in Cambodia have been subjected to torture that includes confinement in coffinlike cells. The London-based human rights organization also said that prisoners were beaten with wooden staves and iron bars, whipped with chains and rubber hoses, burned with hot irons and nearly suffocated with plastic bags. The organization noted that imprisonment and torture have continued despite the overthrow by Vietnamese troops in December, 1978, of Pol Pot’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime.