At the Pol Pot reservoir, Sopheng was silent, staring at the water and the horizon beyond.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

Pol Pot, once known as Brother Number One, died in a jungle hideout in 1998.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | CAMBODIA: Will Justice Ever be Served?

Their notorious leader, Pol Pot, was wheeled before a show trial in July, and locked up.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

Son Sen, Pol Pot's defense minister, was supposedly murdered on Pol Pot's order in June 1997.

CNN: BIG BURDEN

You will never see a document signed by Pol Pot ordering someone to be killed.

CNN: 'I REGRET NOTHING'

Nor does a show trial of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng satisfy international notions of justice.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

Among the documents are startling confessions signed by former Pol Pot cadres, individually admitting to hundreds of murders.

CNN: SELECTIVE MEMORIES

Thus Cambodian conspiracy theorists believe Pol Pot was given "bad water" -- poison.

CNN: BEYOND POL POT

The Thais deny all this, particularly having anything to do with Pol Pot.

ECONOMIST: Kriangsak Chomanan

Senior Thai officials, however, insist forensic examination of samples taken from Pol Pot's body shows no indication of foul play.

CNN: BEYOND POL POT

The Cambodian government is now awaiting a United Nations report on whether enough evidence exists to put Pol Pot's lieutenants on trial.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

Vann Nath does not feel vengeance in his heart, even though he lost two young sons to starvation during the Pol Pot years.

CNN: SELECTIVE MEMORIES

Pol Pot, the supreme leader, died in mysterious circumstances in 1998.

ECONOMIST: Justice is slow to catch up with the former Khmers Rouges

Pol Pot's rule came to an end in 1979 after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and installed a pro-Hanoi administration (which included current Second Prime Minister Hun Sen).

CNN: BEYOND POL POT

In a bitterly ironic twist, many foreign observers argue that Cambodia is still incapable of mounting a properly constituted local tribunal for Pol Pot's surviving Khmer Rouge lieutenants.

CNN: On the Road Back

Two years ago, the king, under pressure from the Cambodian government, pardoned Ieng Sary, who had once been Pol Pot's foreign minister, but had more recently become a useful go-between in arranging defections.

ECONOMIST: Cambodia

Considering that Pol Pot was about 73 and had a history of ill health -- in recent years, he suffered a minor stroke and had cardiac problems -- a heart failure is perfectly feasible.

CNN: BEYOND POL POT

It's just too tempting a pot for any pol to keep hands off.

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