Tears and prayers for the Khmer Rouge "Butcher"


  • World
  • Saturday, 22 Jul 2006

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia (Reuters) - To most Cambodians, he was "The Butcher", one of Pol Pot's most ruthless henchmen and a man whose hands were stained perhaps more than any other with the blood of the Khmer Rouge's 1.7 million victims. 

But in its final redoubt of Anlong Veng, the ultra-Maoist movement's former military chief, Ta Mok, who died on Friday, was revered as little short of an idol. 

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