The children of the Khmer Rouge

"Some things we should believe. Other things, we shouldn't.

In Phnom Penh this week, a war crimes tribunal will begin long-awaited legal proceedings in a trial against four senior Khmer Rouge leaders. In schools in what was the last stronghold of the regime, children have only recently begun learning about their parents' past.

My radio piece looks at how the children of one-time Khmer Rouge see their families' histories, and how former cadres explain war to the first Cambodian generation in decades to grow up without it.

This story first aired on PRI's The World.