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Pol Pot legacy: a nation in fear
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Pol Pot, the best-known man in this
country, hasn't been heard or seen in public for 17 years. Soldiers
who have searched for him admit they wouldn't recognize him. Many
people don't even remember his real name.
Although he ruled absolutely and brutally from 1975 to 1979, it's
almost impossible to find a portrait or biography of him, a street he
named, or a monument he erected in Cambodia. That is the essence of
Pol Pot: While scarcely any outside signs of him r...
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