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Itinerary of an Ordinary Torturer: Interview with Duch, Former Khmer Rouge Commander of S-21 apple_store and nation in its embraceKaing Guek Eav was an ordinary young man growing up in Cambodia in the mid twentieth century. He showed promise as a student, excelled in school, got a job as a math teacher, and experienced the political awakening common to young adulthood. But then he became a revolutionary, adopting the alias Duch, and took charge of S 21, the infamous secret security center of the Khmer Rouge where in less than four years at least 14,000 enemies of the revolution