Exit, pursued by a Khmer: Cambodia. (Khmer Rouge announces surrender of Pol Pot)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 21, 1997 | Copyright information

PHNOM PENH

REMNANTS of the Khmer Rouge movement, broadcasting from a transmitter buried in the jungle of northern Cambodia, grabbed world attention on June 18th. They announced that Pol Pot, the leader of a regime that cost the lives of as many as 2m people in 1975-79, had surrendered. A "dark cloud" had lifted, they said, a new era had opened. Unfortunately they said nothing else, and no one in Phnom Penh is able to confirm Pol Pot's fall.

Their announcement was t...

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