US EditionA coffin for Pol Pot's memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh's fall
- Fifty years after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, a new structure looms over Pol Pot's cremation site.
- Pol Pot's genocidal regime caused the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians during its brutal rule.
- The coffin-shaped structure has a clear plastic roof and rusted steel beams, evoking the Khmer Rouge era.
- Co-Designer Chhoeun Vannet said the acrylic roof conveys that the world is big and beautiful; Pol Pot banned religion.
- While Pol Pot was convicted of genocide in absentia, his legacy complicates Cambodia's reckoning with its history.
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A coffin for Pol Pot's memory, 50 years after fall
A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
A coffin for Pol Pot’s memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh’s fall
A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule. One of history's most notorious mass murderers, his Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh 50 years ago on Thursday, and
HISTORY. The Fall of Phnom Penh: Beginning of Pol Pot's Bloody Reign of Terror
On April 17, 1975 - exactly 50 years ago this week - the communist Khmer Rouge took the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. It was the beginning of a pitch-black period in which the ruthless dictator Pol Pot and his henchmen conducted a bloody reign of terror in which an estimated 2 million of their countrymen were slaughtered. How it came to this had a lot to do with the events in neighboring Vietnam. There, the South Vietnamese army, supported by t…
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