PHNOM PENH, July 30: When she was 18, Hem Savi and her family were taken to a mass grave where Khmer Rouge cadres put bags over their heads and interrogated them about being middle-class.She lost consciousness. When she awoke, she saw that her parents and six brothers and sisters had been killed and thrown in the pit.``Whenever I tell the story to my husband, he just cries,'' said Savi, 41, who joined dozens of Cambodians at Phnom Penh's central market yesterday to catch a televised glimpse of Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge's murderous revolution.The first images in 18 years of the feeble, sullen guerrilla leader his white hair neatly combed, a checkered Cambodian scarf around his neck drew a wide range of emotion from the crowd.``I hate him. I wish they would just kill him,'' said a taxi driver who gave his name only as Savoeun.Market vendors and taxi drivers watched intently as a tape of the show trial of Pol Pot by Khmer Rouge comrades, who have turned against him, was played and replayed.Also in the crowd were young boys and girls who had only heard bogeyman stories about Pol Pot's reign of terror from parents lucky to survive. ``That's him, that's him '' onlookers said when the aging, ailing revolutionary appeared on the video, taken on Friday by American journalist Nate Thayer and sold to American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).The TV monitor showing the video was set up by ABC television news journalist Ted Koppel to gauge public reaction. No one else in Cambodia had seen it, since ABC's images were blacked out in most of Asia.Most people didn't stop to look. Past rumors about Pol Pot had been plentiful, and people are preoccupied with the difficulties of living in a country still desperately poor and unstable as witnessed by a bloody coup on July 5-6 from the bloodshed of two decades ago.``I would have expected to see more anger,'' Koppel said. ``I feel no pity for Pol Pot watching this,'' said Savi, saying the sentence imposed by the Khmer Rouge was not enough.
