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In declining health, Pol Pot stepped back from many of his roles in the movement. In 1998, the Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok placed Pot under house arrest and shortly afterward, Pol Pot died. Taking power at the high point of the communist movement's potency across the world, Pot proved to be divisive to the international communist movement.
Pol Pot, Brother Number One, died before trials began. Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister was tried but died before his verdict. Although only a few Khmer Rouge leaders were tried, over 350,000 Cambodians attended the trials in person, and they received considerable publicity by radio and television.
Pol Pot died in 1998 shortly after he was placed in house arrest by his deputy Ta Mok. [1] See also. Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia;
The Khmer Rouge commander known as Comrade Duch, Pol Pot's main executioner and security chief who oversaw the murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died on ...
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Pol Pot died in April 1998. [ 17 ] : 186 Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea surrendered in December 1998. [ 115 ] On 29 December 1998, leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologised for the 1970s genocide. [ 116 ]
Ke Pauk also surrenders, while Ta Mok flees with his last followers. On April 15, as the Cambodian army approached the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold, Pol Pot was prepared by his jailers to be taken to Thailand. However, he succumbed to a heart attack before being evacuated, [63] possibly helped to die by his Thai military doctor. [18]
Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right-hand man of Pol Pot, the leader of the regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. ... died Sunday, the country's U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal ...