Under the Khmer Rouge government in the late 1970s, Kampot's famous pepper plantations were uprooted and replaced with rice fields.

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This week he and his wife (also once a minister in the Khmer Rouge government) were arrested on the orders of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, a United Nations-backed court run by Cambodian and international judges.

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Last year, when a Khmer Rouge leader toppled the democratically elected government, we mustered merely a polite protest.

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Horrified, Ponchaud devised a plan to gather more information: A friend living on the Cambodian border would record and send him broadcasts from Radio Phnom Penh -- the official voice of the Khmer Rouge -- in which the government described its transformation of the country.

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