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Article: CAMBODIA RECALLS A NATIONAL NIGHTMARE CITIZENS TAKE THEIR FIRST LOOK AT POL POT IN 18 YEARS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 30, 1997
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Huddled shoulder to shoulder, some on tiptoes, market vendors, shoppers and taxi drivers crowded around the TV monitor to look at the man blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million Cambodians.
Boys and girls stood open-mouthed, eyeing the feeble, white-haired man - a bogeyman from horror stories suddenly become real.
Those old enough to remember him cried out in amazement: ``That's him! That's him!''
The footage of toppled Khmer Rouge chief Pol Pot, obtained by a cameraman with American journalist Nate Thayer, was broadcast yesterday on TV monitors in Phnom Penh's central market and at the historic temple Wat Phnom.
ABC, which ...