"They all had to be eliminated."
"Of course, you are asking me whether I could have rebelled, or at least fled. But if I had tried to flee, they were holding my family hostage, and my family would have suffered the same fate as the other prisoners in Tuol Sleng. If I had fled or rebelled it would not have helped anyone."
Two quotes from the same man: Kang Khek Ieu, known as "Cambodia's Himmler" or simply "Duch", a torturer who oversaw the deaths of 17,000 people under the Khmer Rouge. From cold murderous arrogance to an almost humbled victim of dilemma. There's contrast for you.
The link below is to an interview with him in The Independent immediately prior to him going on trial:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/they-all-had-to-be-eliminat...