He was an active participant within one of the cruelest political movements of all time, and yet he's recanted and accepted Christ.

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Comrade Duch (pronounced “Doik”), whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, is the only Khmer Rouge leader to have admitted his participation in the genocide that killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. Under the atheist state (1a), Duch himself commanded Camp S-21 in which he was responsible for the torture and deaths of an estimated 16 000 – 17 000 enemies of the regime. A UN-backed War Crimes Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has sentenced him to 35 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity (1b).

According to the ECCC, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Duch “worked tirelessly to ensure that S-21 ran as efficiently as possible and did so out of unquestioning loyalty to his superiors” (2). Duch’s work ethic led to his promotion as head of the Santebal, the Khmer Rouge’s internal security apparatus. During the 77 day court proceedings, Duch admitted to overseeing the deaths of up to 16 000 people who passed through the prison’s gates. The torture administered included pulling out prisoners’ toenails, electric shocks and waterboarding. The court said at least 100 people bled to death in medieval-style medical experiments (3). Duch’s trial was a big deal in Cambodia as 28 000 people followed the proceedings from the public gallery while the proceedings were broadcasted across the country (4).

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What is particularly striking in this story is Duch’s conversion. In a predominantly Buddhist country Comrade Duch, while in hiding from his crimes in 1996, converted to Christianity. Alongside his recollection of the horrific events of Cambodia’s killing fields, the country learned that while in hiding he had heard a Cambodian-American missionary, Christopher LePel, preach in a village near Battambang. Two weeks later Duch approached LePel and asked to be baptized. According to LePel during the trial, unaware of who Duch really was at the time of his baptism, the man he knew only as Hang Pin confessed to him that he had done things that “couldn’t be forgiven” (6).

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https://jamesbishopblog.com/2017/02/20/c...gain-christian/

Naturally there are questions about his sincerity but LePel thinks it's genuine, he has admitted his crimes, and his prison sentence is still in effect. So all we can say at this point is "Welcome home, brother".