(15 Feb 2004)
Pailin - 18 January 2004
1. Wide shot Christian church in Pailin
2. Church service
3. Various of people singing
4. Former Khmer Rouge soldier singing songs along with other Christians
5. Close up of Bible in a hand of a former Khmer Rouge soldier
6. Former Khmer Rouge soldier reading the Bible
7. Former Khmer Rouge soldier putting his Bible back into a plastic bag
8. Cross on the church''s roof
9. SOUNDBITE: (Cambodian) Rim Pan, former Khmer Rouge radio official:
"I decided to join Christianity because I feel sorry for being involved with the fighting."
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Kompong Cham Province, Cambodia - 1980
10. Various of skulls and bones in field
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Samlot, Cambodia - March 1999
11. Various of former chief torturer of Khmer Rouge, Kang Khek Leu, also known as Duch
12. Still of Kang Kheg Leu from late 1970s
Battam Bang, Cambodia - 2000
13. Various of Cambodians being baptized into the Christian church
14. Man playing guitar surrounded by people singing
15. Woman being baptized
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Lapel, Pastor:
''''He came to me and said ''I am a sinner''. I don''t think my brothers and sisters around me can forgive me because my sin is so deep''''
Palin, Cambodia - 1998
17. Various of aerial shots of Pailin
18. Damaged house in Pailin
Pailin - 17January 2004
19. Nuon Chea, former deputy to Pol Pot, standing in doorway of his home
20. Close up of Nuon Chea
21. Buddha image
22. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Nuon Chea, Second-in-command under Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot:
"If you do good, you''ll receive good in return. And if you do bad, you''ll receive bad in return. It''s not that gods can save us."
23. Cambodian people watching a movie about Jesus
24. Close up of screen
25. Children watching
26. Various of people watching movie
STORYLINE:
During the 30 years of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, its members committed countless atrocities.
Today thousands of ex-Khmer Rouge who once fought for the movement''s Brother No. 1, Pol Pot, are seeking forgiveness from a new leader: Jesus Christ.
The 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime, which is implicated in the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians from disease, overwork,
starvation and execution, preached atheism.
The ultra-leftist regime destroyed religious symbols: they converted about 90 Buddhist pagodas into prisons, using others as pig styes or
armouries, tore down the cathedral in Phnom Penh, derobed monks and killed religious leaders.
At the time Yim Youdavann, head of the foreign religion department in the Religious Affairs Ministry, said "All religion is over."
The Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979 and toppled the Khmer Rouge, which fought a guerrilla war until it collapsed in 1999.
Christianity had already started to grow in the country in the early 1990s, with the arrival of United Nations'' peacekeepers to implement a
peace accord.
The number of Christian believers in Cambodia, where more than 90 percent of the country''s 13 million people practice Buddhism, has grown
from about 30,400 adherents in 1998 to some 50,000 in 2003.
The religion has been embraced by a number of former Khmer Rouge fighters.
Kang Khek Leu, the head of the Tuol Sleng torture prison in Phnom Penh, converted in the 1990''s.
He eventually surrendered to Cambodian authorities, wanting to do what was right by his new religion.
He is likely to be tried for crimes against humanity in Cambodia.
No senior Khmer Rouge member has ever been convicted for the regime''s atrocities, but the Cambodian government and United Nations
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