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Comrade Duch (Kaing Guek Eav), supervisor of killings for Cambodia’s Khmers Rouges, died on September 2nd, aged 77
杜赫同志(康克由)是柬埔寨紅色高棉屠殺的主管，他于9月2日去世，享年77歲。
As the vietnamese army closed in on Phnom Penh in January 1979, Comrade Duch was ordered to kill the prisoners remaining in his charge. He just about had time to supervise that. (Killing was not usually done in his prison, only in the fields he had designated at Choeung Ek, seven kilometres away. Unless someone slipped up.)
1979年1月，越南軍隊逼近金邊市，杜赫同志奉命殺死仍由他負責看守的囚犯。他剛好有時間來監督。（屠殺通常不是在他的監獄里進行的，而是在七公里外他指定的瓊邑克的田地里進行的。除非有人出了差錯。）
He also started to destroy his archive, but did not get far. The orders from Brother Number Two, Nuon Chea, had not specifically requested that. Besides, he did not greatly want to. The archive was well over 100,000 pages, containing meticulous details of the detainees who had passed to death through his prison, Tuol Sleng, or S-21, over the previous four years. (The most exact figure given later was 15,101, but the archive was by then incomplete.) Prisoners’ weight on entering. Their photographs, with the blank look of people at the end of the line. And their confessions, in as many versions as were needed to condemn them. He kept all the versions, with defective parts crossed out in red.
他也開始銷毀他的檔案，但沒有銷毀多少。二號人物農謝在命令中并沒有明確要求。再說，他也不大愿意這樣做。這份檔案超過10萬頁，包含了被拘留者的詳細資料，他們在過去的四年里，在吐斯廉監獄（S-21）被判死刑。（后來給出的最準確數字是15101，但當時的檔案還不完整。）里面有囚犯進入監獄時的體重。他們的照片，以及排在隊伍末尾的人們茫然的表情。還有，在各種各樣的給他們定罪的描述中，他們的認罪。他保留了所有罪狀，把有缺陷的部分用紅色劃掉。
In the margins, neatly, he put comments. “Do not write these words.” “Do not play tricks.” The final acceptable confession was typed and sent to “Angkar”, the high leadership of the Communist Party of Cambodia, to Brother Number Two and Brother Number One, Pol Pot himself. That was the rule. He kept at least two copies. Each carried his decision about the prisoner: “Can be destroyed.” “Take away.” “Keep for medical experiment.” His preferred word was “smash”. That too was the party rule. At once, or later. The system he had devised at S-21 was simple, logical and perpetual.
杜赫在頁邊空白處整齊地寫上了評論。“不要寫這些話。”“不要耍花招。最后把可接受的供詞打印出來，送到了“柬埔寨共產黨”，送到柬埔寨共產黨的高層領導，二號人物農謝和一號人物波爾布特的手里。這是規則。他保留了至少兩份副本。每份中都帶著他關于犯人的決定：“可以毀滅”。“帶走”。“留作醫學實驗”。他更喜歡的詞是“粉碎”。這也是柬埔寨共產黨的統治。馬上，或稍后。他在S-21監獄所設計的系統簡單、合乎邏輯、經久不衰。
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