So they pouredoutforthemen to eat. And it came to pass, as they wereeatingofthe pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there isdeathin thepot.
"After a long public debate they had a photograph of Pol Pot and exactly two lines in Khmer saying that Pol Pot is responsible for the death of 3.3 million Cambodian people.
VOA: standard.2010.04.19
Whatever the real cause, Pol Pot's death marks the end of one chapter in Cambodia's convoluted modern history, even if it does not close the book on the Khmer Rouge.
The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer inThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
In 1979, a Vietnamese-convened court sentenced Pol Pot and his foreign minister, Ieng Sary, to deathin absentia, but the process was so hurried and flawed that even their own defense lawyer called for thedeath penalty.