On Wednesday, 22 July 2009, the ECCC welcomed it’s 12,000th visitor, Mrs. Ork Meach, to watch the substantive hearings in Case 001 against Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch. Mr. Reach Sambath, Chief of Public Affairs, greeted her with an ECCC T-shirt and hat. She had traveled to the court from the Santuk district in Kompong Thom province and she had left at 3:00 am to make it to hearing on time.
