(24 May 2002)
Pailin, northern Cambodia
May 2, 2002
1. Wide shot of Pailin
2. Various of Cambodian people on the street
3. Sneaking shot of Nuon Chea and his wife in his house at Pailin town of Cambodia
4. Wide shot of a sign outside Nuon Chea's house warning people to stay away
5. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's second in command during Khmer Rouge regime
"I like to have a simple life, but I am not very happy. I am still thinking about my country and it's future. But I am not talking about who will be in the leadership. I do not care. I am just worried about my children."
6. Thai-Cambodian border shot
7. Cambodian border guard
8. Cambodian border station
May 3, 2002
Pailin, northern Cambodia.
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge nominal leader
"To speak about my relationship with Nuon Chea. It's not strictly professional. I have to respect him and help him in times of difficulty. You know it's my nature."
10. Khieu Samphan talking to AP reporter
11. Tilt up from Khieu Samphan's bare feet to his face
12. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge nominal leader
"I tell you the truth. I am not very happy or sad. It's simple. In the past I did something so that my name is in the story of my country."
May 2, 2002
Pailin, northern Cambodia
13. People on street
14. Monks
May 4, 2002
Battembong, northern Cambodia
15. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer), Ieng Sary (seated with wife)
Question: "Did you visit Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan?
Answer: No." (Waves his hands)
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Phnom Penh
16. Wide shot of Palace
May 4, 2002
Battembong, northern Cambodia
17. SOUNDBITE : (English) Ieng Thanith, Ieng Sary's wife
Question: "(Is it true that) Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea have no money?
Answer: (laughs) I don't know. They live very far away."
18. Wide shot of Ieng Sary and his wife at Battembong airport.
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ieng Thanith, Ieng Sary's wife
QUESTION: Why did you go to Thailand??
LENG THANITH: Because we have all of our friends there."
May 4, 2002
Sampov Long, northern Cambodia.
20. Pan of cornfield
21. Corn farmers
22. Shot of a van full of passengers on the street.
STORYLINE:
As the momentum wanes for holding a United Nations-sponsored Khmer Rouge genocide trial, two of the barbaric regime's most prominent leaders live a life of freedom but boredom, playing with grandchildren and listening to the radio.
In rare interviews, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have told The Associated Press that they expect to spend their final years in Pailin, a nondescript town close to the Thai border.
Nuon Chea, 76, is the top surviving Khmer Rouge commander.
He helped Pol Pot seize control of Cambodia's communist movement in the 1950s and '60s and then became the movement's chief political ideologue.
Khieu Samphan, 70, was the nominal leader of the Khmer Rouge and its best known public face.
The two men now describe themselves as poor and isolated.
They agreed to the interviews on the condition that they wouldn't be asked about the past or their roles in the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot.
The Khmer Rouge are blamed for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians, killed by disease or overwork, starved or executed in their attempt to create an agrarian utopia.
The 45-minute interviews took place separately on consecutive days this month at their isolated and modest concrete and wooden homes, located less than 30 metres (yards) apart.
A long-standing plan to create a U.N.-assisted Cambodian tribunal to bring surviving Khmer Rouge leaders to justice appears to have unraveled.
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