Khmer Rouge Move Toward War; Still Led by Pol Pot, Cambodian Communists Seek to Ruin Election

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 10, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

He never gives speeches on the radio, sends messages only by courier and has not appeared in public since 1979. He holds no significant titles, occupies no official political or military posts and shuns the visible trappings of power.

But to his comrades-in-arms, Pol Pot is still "Brother Number One." To many Cambodians, he is the most feared man in this country and perhaps the most unfathomable.

As the real leader of the Khmer Rouge, he is the man behind the radical guerrilla group's current offensive against the Phnom Penh government and the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia, the ...

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