Ex-Khmer Rouge Official Converts to Christianity Guided by Pastor She Once Enslaved

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Ex-Khmer Rouge Official Converts to Christianity Guided by Pastor She Once Enslaved
Sok Khemara
WASHINGTON —

Im Chaem, a former Khmer Rouge official who was charged by a United Nations-backed tribunal with crimes against humanity including mass murder, extermination and enslavement, has converted to Christianity under the tutelage of a man who survived a forced labor camp she oversaw.

“I was redeemed,” she told VOA Khmer Friday by phone from her home in Anlong Veng, a district in northwest Cambodia known as the final Khmer Rouge stronghold.

“People have accused me of killing others. That’s wrong,” said the 75-year-old grandmother, a Buddhist by birth. “I have never used violence or threatened anyone. I did not accept the accusations of wrongdoing, as I did only the right.”

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