Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) -- "I come back here to where I killed people. And I feel terrible. My mind, my soul, my body is spinning inside. All the things I did are flashing through my mind."
The speaker is a man named Suon. Sitting alongside a field, the former Khmer Rouge militia commander explains in the documentary "Enemies of the People" how he slit people's throats and talks about drinking gall bladder bile.
The film had its premiere in Asia just ahead of the first verdict to be handed down by the Cambodian genocide tribunal on Monday. It has already won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Four of the ultra-Maoist regime's....full article
Video: Horror of Cambodia's Year Zero
Watch the movie, "The Killing Fields."
A photographer for The New York Times (Sam Waterson) is sent to Cambodia during the turbulent and merciless ruling of is trapped Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" war on the people of Cambodia. Reports say millions lost their lives at Pot's hands.
The reporter wins a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war, but the man he befriended, Dith Pran, gets trapped and cannot leave Cambodia with Waterson. He spends the next few years fighting for his life until...full synopsis
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