A child survivor of the Khmer Rouge's largest torture centre has emerged from obscurity to tell his story on the eve of a crimes against humanity trial in Cambodia. Norng Chan Phal, now a 39-year-old father of two, said he was eight when the Vietnamese stormed into Phnom Penh to end the Khmer Rouge reign of terror.He was held at the notorious S-21 prison where some 16,000 men, women and children were brutally tortured and executed.Phal came forward last week after a film from Vietnam was screened showing Vietnamese troops entering the prison, also known as Tuol Sleng. The man who ran the prison, Kaing Guek Eav, is on trial at a UN-backed tribunal. Better known as Duch, he is the first of five former Khmer Rouge leaders to stand trial for crimes against humanity. He faces charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and homicide while he ran the centre.
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