The former chief interrogator and torturer for Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died early Wednesday in hospital in Phnom Penh, a tribunal spokesman told AFP. "Duch died at Khmer-Soviet Friendship hospital at 0:52 AM," Neth Pheaktra said, using Kaing Guek Eav's alias. The head of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison was serving a life sentence after he was convicted under an ongoing war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh for the ultra-Maoist regime. suy-dhc/jah