CAMBODIA: GENERAL TA MOK GIVES REACTION TO DEATH OF POL POT

(17 Apr 1998) Khmer/Natsound
Khmer Rouge commander General Ta Mok on Friday gave his reaction to the death of former leader Pol Pot, saying his predecessor was as useless as manure.
The general deposed "killing fields" leader Pol Pot last year, replacing him as chief of the outlawed guerrilla group.
Pol Pot died of a heart attack on Wednesday, almost twenty three years to the day after his forces marched into Cambodia's capital and launched a horrific genocide.
The notorious commander Ta Mok, known as 'The Butcher' now leads the remnants of the Khmer Rouge army, believed to number just a few hundred soldiers.
Ta Mok toppled Pol Pot as leader of the last Khmer Rouge faction in 1997 when Pol Pot tried to stop peace talks with the government.
Ta Mok earned his nickname for his bloody purges of perceived traitors during Khmer Rouge rule from 1975 to 1979.
In death, he says his predecessor is not only powerless but useless.
SOUNDBITE: (Khmer)
"It's like this, nobody killed or poisoned Pol Pot. Now he is finished, he has no power and no rights any longer. He is nothing more than cow dung. Actually cow dung is more useful because it can be used as a fertiliser."
SUPER CAPTION: General Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot, who once lived in this house near the Thai-Cambodian border -- was the man deemed responsible for the deaths of up to two (m) million of his countrymen.
He died of a suspected heart attack on Wednesday, but some believe there were suspicious circumstances.
Many Cambodians and members of the international community had been pressing for a war crimes trial to force him to answer for his crimes, among them President Clinton.
Such a trial could have had unpleasant side-effects for the country's current leader, Hun Sen, who was once himself a Khmer Rouge soldier.
Ta Mok lost a leg to a land mine in the early 1980s while directing guerrilla warfare against Vietnamese forces then propping up the Cambodian government.
He dismisses any rumours of foul play, saying Pol Pot's death was sudden but the result of natural causes.
SOUNDBITE: (Khmer)
"He (Pol Pot) asked my permission to move house. It was late in the evening and so I told him to wait until the next day. But nobody came to tell him he could move the next day and then he died. His wife realised he was dead around eleven o'clock at night. She tried to resuscitate him but it was no good."
SUPER CAPTION: General Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge leader
The former Khmer leader died on the eve of the anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh in April 1975.
That was followed by carnage on a scale that earned him a place with some of history's most feared tyrants.
His personal assistant says his employer's death took him completely by surprise.
SOUNDBITE: (Khmer)
"I saw him through at the window around three o'clock in the afternoon. He was fanning himself because it was so hot and that is the last time I saw him alive."
SUPER CAPTION: Mao, Pol Pot's personal assistant
Meanwhile, the dwindling Khmer Rouge forces attempt to hold their ground.
In the past few weeks, the remnants of the once-mighty guerrilla army have been
expelled from their strongholds.
Low on supplies, they've been pushed up against the Thai border by Cambodian government troops.
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[@professeurbergamotte8759]

Monster.

[@longdangphi7765]

I agree

[@tieppham4354]

Tên ta mok gương mặt như nông dân chính hiệu. Vậy mà hắn ta là một nhân vật tàn ác sát hại người dân cpc va dân VN rất dã man .rồi thì cũng đến một ngày hắn ta đền tội ...

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[@TinNongTheGioi-ex9es]

his guy is evil too..he kill alot cambodian...why let him go.. This guy escaped the pursuit of the Vietnamese army many times, once he was captured, but he pretended to be a gentle old man who only knew how to cook, when he was vulnerable he slipped away, this guy was a helping hand. Pol Pot's effective leader, he caused many difficulties for the Vietnamese army.

[@denisjacquemart7363]

Un des pire criminel qu'ai connu l'humanité !

[@TNOfan4093]

17 ans qu'il suce les pissenlits par la racine, et il ne manque à personne !

[@saksuthsakan5500]

The Butcher speaks.

[@khomyut]

killer

[@donnuele7693]

Idiot

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[@choolaor3103]

พูดฟังไม่เข้าใจ

[@phuongongnguyen6630]

Tên ma quỷ, đồ tể khát máu.

[@longdangphi7765]

thằng này rất nhiều lần thoát khỏi sự truy quét của quân đội VN, có lần hắn đã bị bắt, nhưng hắn giả vờ là người già hiền lành chỉ biết nấu cơm, lúc sơ hở hắn đã chuồn mất, tên này là cánh tay trợ thủ đắc lực của Polpot, hắn đã gây ra rất nhiều khó khăn cho quân đội VN .

[@sambolambo5414]

Vietnamese never went and go captured or arrest the Khmer Rouge leader. It was the Cambodian army were the one who did it

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[@buithangchesss7065]

@@sambolambo5414 quân đội việt nam đã bắt giữ được Tamok nhưng ko biết . Rồi tên này chốn đi được đó là sự thật

[@redcloud8444]

this is what happens when you make a bunch of farmers generals and low IQ people as head of state. they wouldn't know what to do.

[@CJinsoo]

The leaders were college educated in Paris, “Sarte’s children.” Did he comment on the “work” of his kids?

[@MisterJoe203]

First of all I think they made themselves head of state using force. Second, IQ has nothing to do with it. You can be the worst scumbag in the world and have the highest IQ. IQ is just a score on a given ability test

[@johnperry5522]

Most of these guys were highly educated, some even went to university in France. Most were also from prosperous, conservative, nationalist families who had done well under the French. And many were quite intelligent and could speak several languages. Yet they were monsters and murderers. Whatever was wrong with them, it was not because they were stupid peasants.

[@johnperry5522]

And they knew exactly what they were doing. Horrific.

[@nguyenvinhquang3086]

@@johnperry5522 Many people can hardly know who 's Khmer Rouge. In fact, they are original, perfect communist. They used to criticize the Soviet Russian communist as revisionist and the Chinese communist by half. That 's why they said they had to be the pioneer proletarian of the world who were entrusted by history to make communism, socialism perfect, who save and liberate people. That is what had happened and was ended

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Was pol pot good for you cambodians?

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Why is this vid here ..WdF understands Cambodian...ffs

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[@dungngotri56]

Not TA, only A Mok

[@tuankrab7475]

What that Nick name means?

[@__LSP]

@@tuankrab7475 “Ta” means grandpa so his name is Grandpa Mok “Ah” is a sort of verbal insult or to call someone who is closed to you or has the same age/younger than you. So in this term he used it as an insult which refers to his barbaric act

[@sethnevercare328]

No he called ah youn

[@savathkrongthep7687]

@@tuankrab7475 this (Tamok) he is a silent killler and cruel killer at anlong veng ..

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