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One of the facility's former prisoners, 52-year-old Ing Mara, said she was beaten, whipped and kept chained at the neck in a prison cell during a 1-year detention. She escaped when the Khmer Rouge was overthrown in 1979 and recalled the horror of seeing other prisoners being led to the mass grave site and never returning. "I watched so many prisoners being taken to the killing place, every night," Ing Mara said in a telephone interview. "I am in shock that their bodies are now being discovered." The Khmer Rouge's chief jailer was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes, and the trial of three other leaders is ongoing at the U.N.-tribunal. A fifth defendant's mental fitness for trial has been challenged. Further trials are in doubt because of funding trouble and resistance within Cambodia to prosecuting more Khmer Rouge figures.
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