Filmmaker tracks Khmer Rouge killers to learn the truth

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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." So declares a man sitting alongside a field named Suon, identified as a former Khmer Rouge militia commander who shows how he slit people's throats and talks about drinking gall bladder bile in the documentary, "Enemies of the People." The film had its premiere in Asia just ahead of the first verdict to be handed down by the Cambodian genocide tribunal on Monday. 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. Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/cambodia.khmer.rouge.filmmaker/index.html?hpt=C1

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