And Pon was stricken silent. So I say don't worry about it. Pol Pot is dead. Yet I wonder. One afternoon I visited a few villages just twenty miles outside of Phnom Penh, and the poverty was staggering.
People have no electricity and life is mud and rice fields and wood and nothing else.
Pol Pot isn't dead. It seems to me that conditions are ripe, even if the superpowers no longer want to play the game, to keep him around for a while longer. All Rights Reserved. Please do not reprint our stories without our permission. This article is available for reprint.