Some Cambodians still regard Pol Pot as a revolutionary and powerful figure to be worshipped.
For them, he was the one who strived for transforming the jungle-clad Southeast Asian country into a peasant utopia, but for many others, he was simply a “genocidal” dictator who presided over one of the “darkest chapters” of the 20th century.
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge (radical communist regime) leader breathed his last in a remote jungle hideout along the Cambodia-Thailand border on April 15, 1998, leaving behind a legacy of brutality and impoverishment.
