Khmer Rouge leaders avoid war crimes spotlight

Описание: (10 May 2002)

File - 1996/1997
Tonle Bati
1.Various of bones of Cambodians who were killed during the regime of Khmer Rouge

File - 2000
Choung Ek, near Phnom Penh
2. Tower of bones

File - April 1998
Anlong Deng
3. Shot of Ta mok

File - April 1998
Anlong Deng
4. Various of Pol Pot's funeral

Pailin - 3 May 2002
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khieu Samphan, public face of Khmer Rouge regime
"I would like to spend the rest of my life in the calm. Because my life has been so disturbing with the same questions again and again. But I have nothing against the press men."

File 2002
Phnom Penh
6. Cambodian map pieced by human bones at the Tuol Sleng museum
7. Various of museum staffers removing bones

Battembong - 4 May 2002
8. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) leng Sary, Khmer Rouge former leader
"The newspapers write a different story from what really happened."

File
Phnom Penh
9. King Sihanouk being surrounded by Cambodian people
10. King Sihanouk shaking hands with people

Battembong - May 4, 2002
11. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) leng Sary, Former Khmer Rouge leader
"Even the king, he does not keep an an accurate account. When he wrote his book in 1979 it was false, very false."

File - 1998
Phnom Penh
12. US embassy in Cambodia
13. US flag

Battembong - 4 May 2002
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) leng Thanith, Ieng Sary's wife
"Because it's not just Cambodia alone, but it's the highest powers that have run Cambodia. Now you understand it's very difficult to separate wrong from right, but even if we speak they don't believe us."

File - December, 1998
Undisclosed location
15. Various of Khmer Rouge leaders Khieo Samphan and Nuon Chea meeting Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen

Pailin - 2 May 2002
16. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's second in command
(OVER STILL PHOTO)
"I am not concerned about politics or other things dealing with my country, I just want to exist like normal people. I am old. I am not healthy and I have no ability, I am living here today just to give advice to my children or to do something good and legal for my fellow Cambodians."
17. Various of Cambodians making jade rings in the market in Pailin, northern Cambodia

Sampov Long - 4 May 2002
18. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Endkong, 54 year old farmer
"During the Khmer Rouge the regime killed a lot of people. No medicine, no food to eat and we were forced to work hard. Now the family is very developed. We have everything to eat, a house in which to stay and we have the right to go anywhere."

Pailin - 2 May 2002
19. Various of streets

Sampov Long - 3 May 2002
20. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Neat Pen, 63 years old farmer
"I am not happy with the Khmer Rouge leaders because the regime killed lots of people. Even my father and brother were killed during that time, So I am very angry and I want to put them in the jail or kill them."

Phnom Penh - 4 May 2002
21. Various of children playing at a park in Phnom Penh
22. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Voxpop, Young Cambodian woman
"I heard from my father the story of Pol Pot and the Pol Pot time. But I don't really know who they are because I was born after the Pol Pot regime."
23. Shot of children playing at the park

STORYLINE:

Several former Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia are quietly hoping that possible war crime tribunals will never come to pass, as they fade into their old age.

While Kaing Kek Ieu, whose "revolutionary" name was Duch, says from jail that he is ready to defend himself, the rest of the surviving leadership are keeping a low profile, hoping that the nation and the international community will lose interest in them.





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