Comrade Duch Repents

"I am responsible for the crimes committed at S-21, especially the torture and execution of the people there," confessed the 66-year-old former math teacher and chief torturer for one of the 20^th Century's most brutal atheistic régimes — Khmer Rouge torturer accepts blame for 14,000 deaths.

The article tells us that Duch is "a born-again Christian whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav," which makes his confession almost a Lenten meditation: "May I be permitted to apologize to the survivors of the regime and families of the victims who had loved ones who died brutally at S-21. I would like you to forgive me." One of the hard truths of our religion is that Comrade Duch can be forgiven, and so can you and I.

Toul Sleng, where the atrocities were committed, was one of the places I visited in that beautiful country twelve years ago. Here are some more images from that school-turned-prison for neocons torture apologists to contemplate — This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like. If only the "born-again Christians" that ran the US from 2001 to 2009 were as honest about their crimes as has been Kaing Guek Eav.