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Architect of Genocide Was Unrepentant to the End
He has been described as "the Hitler of Cambodia," a genocidal
tyrant whose brief but brutal rule claimed more than a million
lives. Yet the man who terrorized his country in the 1970s and
haunted Cambodians' memories for years afterward struck those who
met him as modest, soft-spoken, almost gentle in his countenance, a
reclusive figure who shunned the trappings of power even as he
exercised it with devastating consequences.
The incongruity was part of the enigma of Pol Pot, who died Wednesday night in the jungles of northern Cambodia -- apparently of natural causes -- while being held under house arrest by former followers who had turned against him. He was 73.
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