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Article: KHMER ROUGE'S POL POT, KNOWN FOR HIS `KILLING FIELDS,' GIVES UP.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 19, 1997
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One of the most reviled figures of the century, the fugitive Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, surrendered to his former comrades yesterday, a clandestine rebel broadcast said.
The broadcast was greeted with astonishment, joy and skepticism by Cambodian officials and by foreign analysts who have spent much of their lives trying to comprehend the brutal and often bizarre creator of this country's killing fields.
The development suddenly opened the prospect that Pol Pot could be handed over to the government or the international community and put on trial for the killings of perhaps more than a million Cambodians during his reign of terror from 1975 to 1979.
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