I arrived in Cambodia, along with cameraman Adam Keker, just a few weeks after the United Nations dropped out of plans to hold a war crimes tribunal here for the genocide that happened under the Khmer Rouge more than 25 years ago. After four years of frustrating negotiations with the Cambodian government, the United Nations declared that a fair and impartial trial would be impossible. While war crimes hearings have been held for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, the perpetrators of Cambodia's atrocities still walk free.

It seemed that time for justice was running out. One of the prime candidates for a trial had just died of old age without ever being brought to justice. The notorious general Ke Pauk, suspected of engineering the purges of thousands, was buried by the Khmer Rouge in a hero's funeral. We came to Cambodia to find the perpetrators of the genocide and to see what happens to a country when justice is denied.

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Producer: Angela Morgenstern; Designed by: Susan Harris, Fluent Studios; see full web credits.