(20 May 2002)
1. Wide shot of Cambodians praying in front of memorial glass pagoda containing bones
2. People praying
3. Bones in a glass pagoda with sign asking people to show respect to the millions killed under Pol Pot's regime
4. Cutaway of bones
5. Wide shot of Chea Sim, the Cambodian People Party and Senate president, places his incense stick and prays
6. Various of people walking up to place incense sticks, pray and lay flowers
7. Bones in memorial pagoda
8. People laying flowers
9. Elderly people sitting on the ground, praying
10. Cutaway woman crying
11. Wide shot memorial pagoda
12. Woman arranging bouquets of flowers at memorial pagoda
STORYLINE:
With plans for a genocide trial in limbo, Cambodians on Sunday called for justice at a Buddhist rally to mark the "Day of Anger," an annual day of mourning for the estimated 1-point-7 million (m) victims of the communist Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970's.
More than 1-thousand Cambodians, led by some 100 Buddhist monks, prayed for the souls of the dead at the "killing fields" memorial in Choeung Ek, just south of the capital Phnom Penh.
The site, often visited by tourists, is known for its display of human skulls and mass graves where the bodies of nearly 9-thousand (9000) people killed by the Khmer Rouge during its 1975-79 rule have been exhumed.
An estimated 1-point-7 million (m) Cambodians died from hunger, disease, overwork and summary execution when the radical communist Khmer Rouge turned the country in a vast agrarian work camp.
None of its senior leaders have been prosecuted.
Prominent figures like Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge chief ideologue, Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, and Leng Sary, the Khmer Rouge foreign minister, live and move freely in Cambodia.
Leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
Efforts to bring the surviving leaders to justice suffered a heavy blow when the United Nations decided in February to end negotiations with the Cambodian government to set up a UN-assisted tribunal.
The UN asserted that the Cambodian-dominated trial could not deliver proper justice.
But Prime Minister Hun Sen of the ruling Cambodian People's Party, or CPP, has said Cambodia will hold a trial alone or with help from "friendly" countries.
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