Top: Pol Pot's house and above is an all-season lake located next to the house.
Source: Koh Santepheap newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization
An abandoned house overgrown by bushes looks like any other ordinary abandoned house, but unlike any other ordinary house, this is not an ordinary house for it holds historical significance for one of the unforgettable, or if you may say it, a rather forgettable, event in the 20th century, the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge murderous regime.
This is Pol Pot's house, a house built in the 1980s on top of the Dangrek Mountains a long the Khmer-Thai border and it has fallen into dereliction since it was abandoned 11 years ago.
The house, 8 metres by 12 metres, was built with bricks and bagged with concrete with underground tunnels crisscrossing beneath it. The house is surrounded with many fruit trees such as mango trees and other big trees that give a cool shade to the house surrounds. Two concrete water tanks were built near the house and an all-season lake is situated nearby to make sure that Pol Pot will never run out of water. There is also a cowshed measuring 1000 squared metres.
Pol Pot's house is located in Village 105 in Tropeang Prey commune of Anlong Veng district, Ouddor Meanchey province.
According to a local resident, in the 1990s many houses of former Khmer Rouge leaders dotted the Dangrek Mountains along the 10 kilometres from Choam Sra-Ngam Pass to Tonsorng village. If one travelled from Choam Sra-Ngam, the first home they will see is Ta Mok's house, then Khieu Samphan's and then Pol Pot's house who live with his second wife, a teenage daughter and Mr. Tep Khunnal, who was his secretary at the time.
According to the same local, from Choam Sra-Ngam to Pol Pot's house there were 6 all-season lakes which never dry up, even during the dry season.
All these Khmer Rouge houses were abandoned in 1998 when the movement leaders engaged in an internal infighting that saw the total collapse of the Khmer Rouge movement. Pol Pot died on 17th April 1998, exactly 23 years to the day he brutally took powers in Cambodia.
Pol Pot's house is now is a state of dereliction and there are calls for it to be preserved as a historical site and for tourism.
This is Pol Pot's house, a house built in the 1980s on top of the Dangrek Mountains a long the Khmer-Thai border and it has fallen into dereliction since it was abandoned 11 years ago.
The house, 8 metres by 12 metres, was built with bricks and bagged with concrete with underground tunnels crisscrossing beneath it. The house is surrounded with many fruit trees such as mango trees and other big trees that give a cool shade to the house surrounds. Two concrete water tanks were built near the house and an all-season lake is situated nearby to make sure that Pol Pot will never run out of water. There is also a cowshed measuring 1000 squared metres.
Pol Pot's house is located in Village 105 in Tropeang Prey commune of Anlong Veng district, Ouddor Meanchey province.
According to a local resident, in the 1990s many houses of former Khmer Rouge leaders dotted the Dangrek Mountains along the 10 kilometres from Choam Sra-Ngam Pass to Tonsorng village. If one travelled from Choam Sra-Ngam, the first home they will see is Ta Mok's house, then Khieu Samphan's and then Pol Pot's house who live with his second wife, a teenage daughter and Mr. Tep Khunnal, who was his secretary at the time.
According to the same local, from Choam Sra-Ngam to Pol Pot's house there were 6 all-season lakes which never dry up, even during the dry season.
All these Khmer Rouge houses were abandoned in 1998 when the movement leaders engaged in an internal infighting that saw the total collapse of the Khmer Rouge movement. Pol Pot died on 17th April 1998, exactly 23 years to the day he brutally took powers in Cambodia.
Pol Pot's house is now is a state of dereliction and there are calls for it to be preserved as a historical site and for tourism.
3 comments:
Neang Sar,Salot Sar's wife,and her daughter are living in US now.
Today Pol Pot's house is be preserved as a historical site and tomorrow it will be Toul Krasaing of Hun Sen's house ......
True, 2.23pm? How did they get to America? Where is Tep Khunnal because he is Neang Sar's second husband. If it is true I wonder if US officials knew she was Pol Pot's wife.
Any way, she and her daughter are innocent of everything. Pol Pot's crimes are his crimes.
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