Pol Pot's secrets: the truth about the killing fields could implicate many.(includes related article with timeline of the political growth of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: July 7, 1997| Author: Omestad, Thomas | Copyright information

The Cambodian government reports that the Khmer Rouge is holding its leader Pol Pot prisoner. This may be the end of a horrible era in Cambodian history, when up to 2 million Cambodians were killed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Evidence has been gathered by the Cambodian Genocide Project against Pol Pot.

Life in a comfortable American suburb has yet to wipe away the images that haunt Chanthou Oeur: human skulls bobbing in a rain-washed ditch, the shoes of victims slung over the club tha...

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