Then the writer reveals (just before Mr Nuon Chea's arrest) how his family suffered.
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Human-rights groups also believe that Mr Samphan and Mr Nuon Chea should be brought to trial.
"With Nuon Chea, even a lousy lawyer could press charges, " says Youk Chhang, director of the documentation center.
"The interrogators and guards burst out laughing, " when they heard that, said Phnom Penh deputy governor Chea Sophara.
On the CPP's posters he appeared in equal-sized portraits with Heng Samrin and Chea Sim, two party stalwarts.
He was followed by top cadres Ke Pauk, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea.
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But the capital's determined first deputy governor, Chea Sophara, who is in charge of the operation, is not giving up.
The father was able to open the door a few inches and saw the bodies of Chea and Sreap on the floor.
The turning-point may have been in December when two leaders of the hated regime, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, returned to Phnom Penh.
When Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, both of them prominent in Pol Pot's government, surrendered in 1998, Mr Hun Sen welcomed them with great warmth.
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National Assembly president Chea Sim, who is the acting head of state in the King's absence, has called on both sides to settle their differences.
On March 27th the defence team for Nuon Chea, another of the accused, backed by two other defence teams, asked to see the confidential UN review.
When they arrived, they found Touch Chea, 71, and his wife, Sorn Sreap, 73, dead, apparently due to blunt force trauma to the head and face, Markiewicz said.
It has drawn interest from the tribunal that will try Mr Nuon Chea and three other regime leaders next year, and which has tried to subpoena the footage.
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Perhaps for this reason, Nuon Chea later made it clear that there was no question of Pol Pot ever being handed over to any properly convened international tribunal for trial.
At one point, Defence Minister Daniel Chea himself ran out into the streets to order troops to turn off flashing lights on their vehicles, saying it was adding to the panic.
In December Prime Minister Hun Sen literally rolled out the red carpet for Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's political deputy, and longtime frontman Khieu Samphan (the "acceptable face" of the Khmer Rouge).
Chea Vannath, a social scientist, who survived a Khmer Rouge prison camp, says the prime minister has become skilful in provoking splits among his foes and at harrying them through the courts.
The sergeant said the 2-year-old's father told police that he and his wife, who is pregnant, lived in the home with their children -- ages 4 and 2 -- along with Chea, Sreap and another relative.
It is of enormous significance that the PRP is led by a cluster of former Khmer Rouge leaders Heng Samrin (Chief of State), Hun Sen (Prime Minister), Chea Sim (National Assembly leader), Sin Song (Interior Minister) and Gen.
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"What's really disturbing is that by the time the judges make their decision, every piece of evidence, every bit that they look at and evaluate and deliberate on, will have passed through the office of administration and will have literally passed through the hands of people who we say have dirty hands, " said Andrew Ianuzzi, a consultant for defendant Nuon Chea's legal team.
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