CAMBODIA'S POL POT DIES IN HIS SLEEP, KHMER ROUGE SAYS.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: April 16, 1998 | Copyright information

Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge regime that sent as many as 2 million Cambodians to their deaths, died peacefully in his sleep yesterday, Khmer Rouge officials said. He was 73.

Pol Pot died before midnight in northern Cambodia near the Thai border, said Nuon Nou, reached by telephone on the border. Nuon Nou was assigned to guard Pol Pot after he lost power in a bloody power struggle within the Khmer Rouge last year.

Nuon Nou said Pol Pot's wife informed Khm...

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