tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28411615.post4330601729362704111..comments2023-06-24T16:06:41.407+07:00Comments on andy's cambodia : andybrouwer.blogspot.com: Cambodia Born AnewAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138808270729932935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28411615.post-56858806106572062072007-10-12T05:02:00.001+07:002007-10-12T05:02:00.001+07:00It is a nice and meaningful exhibition! It covers ...It is a nice and meaningful exhibition! It covers themes such as religion, farming, weaving, fishing.... which draw one's mind into what Khmer's rural life is like.<BR/>Pisith-NIUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28411615.post-64520030340409247012007-10-05T19:50:00.000+07:002007-10-05T19:50:00.000+07:00It's long been my pet peeve.About a year after he ...It's long been my pet peeve.<BR/><BR/>About a year after he "died", one of Pol Pot's Anglong Veng house guards - recall that he was under lengthy house arrest after his show trial - admitted that he'd been injected in the heart with poison. It was a single paragraph, mentioned in passing, and I wish I could recall the newspaper in which I saw it. Alas I cannot.<BR/><BR/>But here's what we know:<BR/><BR/>With their obvious taste for murder, treachery, and infighting, it had been my personal suspicion from the very outset that Pol Pot had been murdered by his lifelong KR comrades. As individuals and as a group, they historically exhibited not a single molecule of sentimentality, empathy, or mere humanity toward anyone including each other. And we know from Nate Thayer's brave and excellent reporting that Pol Pot was indeed convicted of various crimes against the movement, precisely the sort of thing that for anyone in or outside of the KR would have meant a speedy "adieu" to S-21 and then Choung Ek in 1978.<BR/><BR/>So with all that in mind, take another look at Pol Pot's deathbed photos. Notice the circular stain directly above heart area. That's what caught my attention in 1998, and I said from the get-go that it looked like he'd been injected with something in that area of the chest.<BR/><BR/>With their taste for the utterly savage it would be surprising if the "poison" was anything more sophisticated than prahok mixed with motor oil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com