{"id":1892,"date":"2025-04-14T02:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:25:31","slug":"a-coffin-for-pol-pots-memory-50-years-after-phnom-penhs-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/a-coffin-for-pol-pots-memory-50-years-after-phnom-penhs-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"A coffin for Pol Pot&#039;s memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh&#039;s fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not ashamed of being a Khmer Rouge. I followed orders,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;I want to bury the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say political pressures complicate Cambodia&#8217;s reckoning with its history as a result of ex-prime minister Hun Sen&#8217;s policy of reconciliation, which reintegrated most Khmer Rouge into society.<\/p>\n<p>Pol Pot himself was tried in absentia, convicted of genocide and sentenced to death by the Vietnamese-installed authorities in 1979, but he was never brought to justice before an internationally recognised court.<\/p>\n<p>A special tribunal sponsored by the United Nations convicted three key Khmer Rouge figures before ceasing operations in 2022, but other former cadres continue to live freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anlong Veng (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 04:25<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 04:24<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n        <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 5 min<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"35196536394b127b0e13e51395504f6670beee94.jpg\" alt=\"A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Cambodia&#039;s Anlong Veng\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-db"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}