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Mam Nai is implicated in "hands-on torture and execution and would almost certainly be convicted in any international tribunal". After appearing at Duch's trial as a witness Mam Nai has, however, not been charged. At the trial he was asked questions regarding his involvement in the torture and murder
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Mam Nai's signature is on scores of documents detailing the torture of DK's political opponents. He saw to the execution of surviving prisoners with his boss Duch before abandoning Tuol Sleng prison; both men were among the last Khmer Rouge cadres to flee Phnom Penh when it fell to the
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ordered Son Sen's assassination in 1997, living as a private small-scale farmer in the west of the country. Although
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teacher in 1956, and
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