Enemies of the People

Thet Sambath, one of the filmmakers behind 'Enemies of the People,' interviews former Khmer Rouge killers. The two men take Sambath to the fields where they did most of their killing, confess to their crimes and describe their current feelings about their past actions.

Thet Sambath embarked on a project to interview former Khmer Rouge leaders about the "killing fields." In this clip from 'Enemies of the People,' Sambath remembers when Khmer Rouge officials killed his father.

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain largely unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who lost his family in the conflict and spends a decade gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres.

Filmmaker Rob Lemkin sits down with Geoffrey Smith, whose films "The English Surgeon" and "Presumed Guilty" premiered on POV, to talk about "Enemies of the People." Lemkin describes how he met his co-director, Thet Sambath, and Sambath's unique way of gaining the trust of the Khmer Rouge killers for the film.

In this clip from 'Enemies of the People,' journalist Thet Sambath sits down with three former Khmer Rouge officials to ask them about their actions in the "killing fields." Sister Em, Khoun and Suon describe the chain of command in the Khmer Rouge regime, and the necessity of carrying out orders in order to survive the Khmer Rouge years.