“If you can kill 14,000 people and serve only 19 years — 11 hours per life taken — what is that? It’s a joke.”
— THEARY SENG, a Cambodian who is now a U.S. citizen, on the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, a senior Khmer Rouge official who admitted to overseeing tortures and murders during the “Killing Fields” revolution blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia in the mid-1970s; Duch, who said he was just following orders, will spend 19 years in prison in addition to the 16 years he has already served (via Reuters)