Pol Pot on his deathbed04/15/2008
Agence France-Presse
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Tuesday quietly marked the 10-year anniversary of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's death, amid fears that time is running out to try his aging surviving cadre before a genocide tribunal.
Pol Pot, the tyrant who turned Cambodia into the killing fields in the late 1970s, died on April 15, 1998, reportedly from heart attack, in the remote northern Cambodian outpost of Anlong Veng, the Khmer Rouge's final stronghold.
He was unceremoniously cremated under a pile of rubbish and tires.
"Pol Pot died a criminal, responsible for millions of lives," said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which collects evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities. "He is not the kind of person Cambodian people should commemorate."
Nhem En, deputy governor of Anlong Veng and a former Khmer Rouge member, told AFP by telephone: "It is the 10-year anniversary of Pol Pot's death, but there is no commemoration for his soul."
Up to two million people died of overwork and starvation or were executed under the 1975-79 rule of the Khmer Rouge, which abolished religion, property rights, currency and schools.
Millions more were driven from the cities onto vast collective farms as Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime sought to create an agrarian utopia.
"Pol Pot is a person the world hates," said Nhem En, a former photographer at the Khmer Rouge's notorious Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh.
A joint Cambodia-UN tribunal convened in 2006 after nearly a decade of haggling has experienced delays and a funding crisis, raising concerns that the defendants could die before standing trial for their alleged role in one of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
As tribunal officials try to pull together the additional $114 million needed to finish the process, many of the five defendants detained by the court complain of weakening health.
One of them, 82-year-old Ieng Sary, has been repeatedly hospitalized.
"If one of them dies (without standing trial), it is a failure for the court and is not acceptable," said Youk Chhang. "The justice that we wanted from Pol Pot died along with him."
Public trials of the regime's five top leaders are expected to begin later this year.
Originally budgeted at $56.3 million over three years, the tribunal has raised its cost estimates to $170 million, which would allow the court to continue operating until 2011.
Court officials travelled to the United Nations in New York in March to seek $114 million, but so far only Australia has come through, promising $450,000 more for the cash-strapped court.
International backers appear hesitant to pledge more money to the process amid allegations of mismanagement and political interference.
Pol Pot, the tyrant who turned Cambodia into the killing fields in the late 1970s, died on April 15, 1998, reportedly from heart attack, in the remote northern Cambodian outpost of Anlong Veng, the Khmer Rouge's final stronghold.
He was unceremoniously cremated under a pile of rubbish and tires.
"Pol Pot died a criminal, responsible for millions of lives," said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which collects evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities. "He is not the kind of person Cambodian people should commemorate."
Nhem En, deputy governor of Anlong Veng and a former Khmer Rouge member, told AFP by telephone: "It is the 10-year anniversary of Pol Pot's death, but there is no commemoration for his soul."
Up to two million people died of overwork and starvation or were executed under the 1975-79 rule of the Khmer Rouge, which abolished religion, property rights, currency and schools.
Millions more were driven from the cities onto vast collective farms as Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime sought to create an agrarian utopia.
"Pol Pot is a person the world hates," said Nhem En, a former photographer at the Khmer Rouge's notorious Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh.
A joint Cambodia-UN tribunal convened in 2006 after nearly a decade of haggling has experienced delays and a funding crisis, raising concerns that the defendants could die before standing trial for their alleged role in one of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
As tribunal officials try to pull together the additional $114 million needed to finish the process, many of the five defendants detained by the court complain of weakening health.
One of them, 82-year-old Ieng Sary, has been repeatedly hospitalized.
"If one of them dies (without standing trial), it is a failure for the court and is not acceptable," said Youk Chhang. "The justice that we wanted from Pol Pot died along with him."
Public trials of the regime's five top leaders are expected to begin later this year.
Originally budgeted at $56.3 million over three years, the tribunal has raised its cost estimates to $170 million, which would allow the court to continue operating until 2011.
Court officials travelled to the United Nations in New York in March to seek $114 million, but so far only Australia has come through, promising $450,000 more for the cash-strapped court.
International backers appear hesitant to pledge more money to the process amid allegations of mismanagement and political interference.
22 comments:
Hun Sen and all his gangs should look at this scene. One day, he will end up at this stage. When I said " One day" it is not far aways. It could be tomorrow, or after tomorrow or another after. They must realise that what is the poin to create suffering to others?
You can be looked great when you are still alive. But after your death, your body will rotte and will decompose like a death fish.
Pol Pot was an honest man.
He was treated and manipulated by Ieng Sary Who counts the help of China to try to get back the Kam Puchea Krom.
Ieng Sary urget Pol Pot to make war against Vietnam, What it was fatal for him.
The Pol Pot's spirit did not completely die.
The Pol Pot's soul already retourned among us.
When the dog sam rainsy will be in power, new Pol Pot will arrive among us.
Because The spirit is immortal.
The spirit triumps on the material.
The Pol Pot's soul already returned among someone of us.
Cheyo Brother number one.
Pol Pot that your soul returns among us!
Cheyo, the Kampuchea Démocratic!
Pol Pot+Sihanouk+Mao+Ho=Killers
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=JFYsPvT81VU
May Buddha Srei ArMétrei help People khmer to find the truth!
We people khmer,we need Peace,Indepence,real Justice!
"SAMATTHANNA YO MAYHAM"
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gWK5eZzL8aQ&feature=related
Those who praise Pol Pot are still the atrocious Khmer Rouge. Below I will extract some parts of what the then Prince Xihanouk wrote in his book WAR AND HOPE. He wrote this book in 1979 after he was evacuated from Phnom Penh. I do not claim that all of what he wrote is true. Only the unbiased who know the true can fill in the missing parts which the author intentionally do not want to put in for fear of being severy condemned by his own people. He spit out all of his bitter and painful experinces to put in book; and here it goes: (chap. 20, page 125, "Pol Pot and Ieng Sary's partisants are not fighting to save Cambodia and its people, but to preserve their personal power, to keep their own compatriots enslaved, to maintain the right of life and death over all Cambodian men and women not belonging to their families or political clan."
(chapt. 3, page 11, "Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, and Co. were full of hatred for the Khmer monarchy and Norodom Sihanouk that they could not tolerate the triple blow the same monarchy and the same Sihanouk. . . ." More to come
Pol Pot = Hun Xen = Sihanuk = Ho = Mao they are one!!!!
Ah Hun Sen (aka Hun Blind : blind of national conscience) will be died like the same status of Pol Pot.
Ah Hun Sen will be died in the forest of Takhmau by his bodyguards and no Khmer people have nostalgy for him !
WAR AND HOPE (continued) Below is a little piece of what he wrote in the preface of his book: "An ancestral prophecy (Budh Tum Neay) predicts one day the unfortuante will be forced to choose between being eaten by tigers or swallowed by crocodiles. Today we are seeing that the prophecy fulfilled in the most tragic way possible. The Kampuchean people are on the brink of extinct, dying a slow death . . . ." So, one one takes responsible of what has happened to Cambodian people. No one has done anything to harm Cambodian people. If anyone wants to blame, blame the ancestral
prophecy, kaun chao dambao kouth!
more to come
correcti: ". . .predicts that. . .the unfortunate Khmer people. . . "
sorry for being unable to continue with WAR AND HOPE. I go to watt for the Khmer New Year's final day.
Pol Pot was an honorable man.
He was a true khmer leader.
Pol Pot has never given the order to kill nobody.
The genocide of the Democratic Kampuchea was a propaganda of his enemies.
There was no geneocide under Pol Pot.
being quiet and humble is better for pol pot's worshippers. as for me i'll rather deficate on his grave. i hated the son of a bitch killer and his clonies. i hope people are smarter than pol pot.
may Pol Pot's evil spirit be with you at all time and bring you to hell after this New Year!
Hey, 4:01,3:58,3:48, and 3:37. I really don't know whether or not you are one person, but if you are four different persons, the four of you should prepare your clothes by now because your honorable Pol Pot, whose dead body was cremated just like a dea dog, is waiting for you. And as soon as the Khmer New Year is over, he will fiercely purge you from this planet earth to stay in hell with him, and you will never have a chance to back to celebrate New Year for millions of years. Prepare yourselves now; don't waist his precious time!!!!
correction: . . .waist to waste. . .
This man (salot sar a.k.a POL POT) was the stupidest of all khmer leaders.At one time of his life ,he had the whole Cambodia to himself and unfortunately he did not know what to do with it.He still clad in black pajama, worn sandal made from tires , a scarf (kroma) tight around his neck,and very very paranoia . Finally got kick out from power by yuos.How sad.
Look at HUN SEN, the smartest one.This man is just too clever.Case and points, he used monks to counter the disgruntle monks when the latter one are restless..To me, this method is just too fucking smart .He made himself millionaires. He lived in mansions. he has gotten everything going for him.He controled or owned the military,the police, the court,the assembly,the new king ,the old king,the monks(tep vong), i can't name anything else it's just too damn much.The question is how can anyone, i mean anyone top that ?.
I don't know why some Cambodian people and the foreigners especially the Westerner and the Vietcong always claimed that Pol Pot killed Cambodian people! If this is the case and why did Pol Pot created two factions of Khmer Rouge to kill each other? Why! Why! Why!
Why some of the Khmer Rouge faction is pro-Vietcong by birth?
Well, It is a fact that the Vietcong led by Uncle Ho help create the Red Khmer communist which turn out to be the Khmer Rouge to fight the French colonial master since the 1920-1930.
Why some of the Khmer Rouge faction is pro-communist Chinese by birth?
Well, Those Khmer people who don’t want to live under the Vietcong domination will have to join communist China!
So to say only Pol Pot killed Cambodian people is something very hard for me to believe! If the different factions of the Khmer Rouge can kill each other and they certainly can kill anybody including the Vietcong! It is the Vietcong who planted the seed of destruction on Khmer people! And this time the seeds of the Vietcong must not allow to grow whether the seed of their fucken economic cooperation, their fucken seed of diplomacy, their fucken seed of cultural understanding, their fucken seed to make Khmer Krom people as an example to all Khmer people that the Khmer Krom people will always be the slave to the Vietcong, their fucken seed of preaching false peace and friendship, and fuck all other of the Vietcong seed…
Don't shift all the blame to the neighboring enemies. It's our rulers stupidity is the main cause of all the destruction. Why don't you open your eyes to look at all the small countries in the world whose leader are nationalists? 80% of the blame must be put on your idiotic rulers.
Don't shift all the blame to the neighboring enemies. It's our rulers stupidity is the main cause of all the destruction. Why don't you open your eyes to look at all the small countries in the world whose leader are nationalists? 80% of the blame must be put on your idiotic rulers.
To 9:29PM
Shift the blame? What do you mean? The fucken Vietcong had their troop in Cambodia before and after Cambodia got her independence from France!
Do you think the Vietcong fear King Sihanouk? Just ask King Sihanouk and he can't even do shit to the Vietcong to make them get out Cambodia and respect Cambodian sovereignty and that the reason why King Sihanouk look to China for help!
I had checked and rechecked Cambodian history and I found out the Vietcong had their finger print all over the page of Cambodian history!
This time the Vietcong won't be so lucky!
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