Taped Khmer Rouge ‘Confession’ Found

An audiotaped “confession” has been found in the mountain of evidence being prepared for the probable trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, the first such recording to be discovered by genocide researchers documenting the regime’s reign of terror more than 20 years ago. Like most victims of the Khmer Rouge’s infamous S-21 detention camp, guerrilla officer Chan Nhoung confesses unlikely tales of CIA spies, Vietnamese plots and internal enemies. He was one of an estimated 20,000 suspected political enemies jailed at S-21 and was put to death outside Phnom Penh, the capital, after his confession.