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Article: VIDEO SHOWS POL POT HUMBLED AT A SHOW TRIAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 29, 1997
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Videotape footage from an extraordinary show trial in a jungle clearing in western Cambodia appears to provide the first concrete evidence that Pol Pot, the 69-year-old Khmer Rouge leader who has not been seen in public for nearly two decades, is alive and in the custody of his former comrades.
Videos filmed Friday show Pol Pot sitting mute before an audience of hundreds of Cambodians who cheered as he was denounced at a two-hour meeting meant to show he was no longer the leader of the nearly moribund Khmer Rouge movement.
The Cambodian Maoist leader most responsible for the death of up to 2 million Cambodians was easily recognizable. His shoulders now ...