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...supposed to: peacefully in his sleep. By doing so, he cheated both his pursuers in Cambodia and his would-be international tribunal. It was perfect timing: "We could almost have arrested him tomorrow," said Youk Chhang of the Yale University project that was gathering evidence against the Khmer Rouge killer...
...some, it was too perfect. "It wouldn't be beyond the Khmer Rouge either to try and fake his death or to have killed him," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Previous reports of Pol Pot's death, after all, have been greatly exaggerated. But never before have they come from both the Khmer Rouge and Thai authorities. More fruitful for conspiracy theorists are the rumors of an inside...
...Some in the Cambodian military think current Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok had his old rival murdered to take the heat off his embattled guerrilla group. And at least one of Pol Pot's captors has seen the death as a way to wash his hands: "We are clean now," said his jailer, Nuon Nou. So is the U.S., Thailand and Singapore -- a tribunal might have brought to light just how much they helped him evade capture...
...crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There he sat, still as death, watery eyes, age spots, every inch an ordinary old man, except in his vile soul. Where was the international tribunal to bring this subhuman low before the world? Or was it thought sufficient that he appeared on television...
...Eastern Economic Review, Pol Pot defends his orders to execute political opponents, although he disputes the claim that millions had died. ?I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people,? he is quoted as saying. Pol Pot is currently in the custody of his former Khmer Rouge subordinates after being ousted from leadership of the guerrilla movement in June. The Khmer Rouge say they?ll hand him over to an international tribunal for trial only if current Cambodian leader Hun Sen is also tried. Which makes it unlikely that the frail, aging genocidal ideologue will ever face...