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not until all Khmer Rouge leaders who come to give sincere testimony of Cambodia really can bury his past

was almost dark when I arrived at the small wooden house on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. He greeted me with a tired smile. We both knew that this was the last time we sat down to eat a meal together.

the next morning the police came with a helicopter to arrest Nuon Chea, the senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader, wanted by a UN-backed tribunal for his alleged involvement in the death of 1 7 million. The dead included my parents and my brother.

It was almost four years. Nuon Chea trial begins Monday. I will not go on Monday morning, but I said, it can be called as a witness later. It is because I am the only person that Nuon Chea has counted so far with the deepest secrets of the Khmer Rouge regime was found with Pol Pot. I put a small fraction of the thousands of hours of interviews he gave me, between 2001 and 2007 in my enemies documentary of the population.

I have mixed feelings about the court. If it helps us get to the truth that has been worth it. But the truth of the killing fields may be too large for a single case in court, even as the British co-prosecutor stated that "the persecution largest and most complicated since Nuremberg in 1945."

After my film won an award at the Sundance Film Festival, the judges and I shook my British co-director Rob Lemkin to remove the film as part of the evidence the prosecution in the case against Nuon Chea. We refuse - Nuon Chea had not spoken frankly that I said I would deliver the material to the court Among the comments we have even said we were a hand with the Khmer Rouge genocide. Nothing could be further from the truth. In any case, the order of the Court shows that are still in use in the film as evidence in the public domain now. But I'm glad you're not part of the prosecution case, it would mean that no Khmer Rouge speak honestly with me or any other researcher or journalist. In fact, many continue to talk to me precisely because I think my project is neutral and truly interested in creating an archive for future generations. Notice today is much more important that the procedures last year against Duch, the head of the S-21 prison. Cambodians are desperate to hear Nuon Chea directly for the first time.

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