No wish to kill Duch: Hamill
New Zealander Rob Hamill is rejecting international headlines claiming he wishes to kill Kaing Guek Eav, the Khmer Rouge commander of the camp where his brother Kerry was murdered in 1978.
In his testimony to the UN-backed trial in Cambodia on Monday night, Mr Hamill said he had at times in the past 31 years imagined Eav, also known as Duch, suffering the same torture inflicted on so many people, but he has never wanted to action those thoughts.
Mr Hamill made it clear yesterday that he was never going to give in to those feelings, that the testimony itself was part of the healing process and he was pushing the emotional burden of the crimes back on to Duch.
"To want to kill another human being in retribution is to lower yourself to the level of the perpetrators of such heinous crimes."
- Waikato Times
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