Video of First Khmer Rouge Trial

As my colleague Seth Mydans reports from Cambodia, the first Khmer Rouge leader to face justice at a United Nations-backed tribunal, the warden of a notorious prison in Phnom Penh, was found guilty on Monday of crimes against humanity and war crimes for overseeing the torture and killing of more than 14,000 prisoners.

Before Monday’s verdict was announced, the tribunal, known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, posted video highlights from the trial of the warden, Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known as Duch, on its YouTube channel in two parts (embedded above and below).

The video of the trial includes testimony from both the defendant and three survivors who were held at the prison, known as S-21 or Tuol Sleng.

One of those survivors, an artist named Vann Nath, participated in a documentary about the prison made in 2002 by the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, “S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine.” The film brought together two former prisoners and some of the men who were their jailers to confront what happened at the prison during the Khmer Rouge rule ending in 1979.

Mr. Panh’s film about the prison was shown recently in Phnom Penh, at the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which he helped establish to preserve memories of the Khmer Rouge era.

The center’s Web site includes the trailer for another documentary screened there recently, “About My Father,” which tells the story of Duch’s trial through the eyes of the family of one of his victims.