The Bucolic Life of a Cambodian Grandmother Accused of Mass Killings

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Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge soldier, has repeatedly warned that more trials would cause fresh outbreaks of civil war and chaos.
PhotoThe Khmer Rouge retreated here after the regime?s defeat and continued to hold sway until 1998.
?I do not like what they accuse me of,? she said in a recent interview at her home in Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold.
Up the road, Ms.
Im Chaem?s compound is the largest in her neighborhood, dotted with flowers and decorative cactuses and presided over by her eldest daughter, Kaing Rin, who keeps house.
Today it is something of a retirement community for former Khmer Rouge fighters, and has recently filled up with S.
U.
V.
s, hair salons and even a coffee shop selling cappuccinos.