Cambodia - Pol Pot interview

(8 Jan 1998) T/I: 11:32:52 GS 10:27:57
Pol Pot is alive and not well in the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlgong Veng. A videotaped interview - shot Sunday (4/1) in Anlgong Veng - with Pol Pot disproves last week's reports that the former Khmer Rouge leader had been taken to China for medical treatment. The interview was only the second one in 18 years that Pol Pot has granted to an outsider.
In the recording Pol Pot appears extremely weak and Cambodia analyst David Ashley, commenting in London on the interview, said the architect of Year Zero and the killing fields admits that he is politically finished and believes his life is almost at an end.
SHOWS
ANLGONG VENG, THAI/CAMBODIA BORDER - 04/01
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00.00 WS Pol Pot walking, supported by aides.
00.08 MS Pol Pot walking, supported by aides.
00.15 SOT Pol Pot (in Cambodian) saying he is on his own and gets few visitors apart from the odd family member
RESTRICTIONS END.
LONDON, UK - 08/01
00.29 WS David Ashley, Khmer Rouge expert.
00.34 CU Ashley's hand
00.36 SOT Ashley (in English) saying: "He doesn't want to talk about that period. The only things he says are in general terms, that throughout his career he only fought against the Vietnamese to stop Cambodia being swallowed by the Vietnamese."
00.50 CU Monitor screen showing Pol Pot.
00.52 CU Ashley PAN across to monitor.
00.55 SOT Ashley (in English) saying: "He looks very weak he does look very ill he continually complains in the interview about his health, about problems with his eye. He's blinded in his left eye. He says that he's had heart palpitations in the last month and his health is deteriorating. And he says, for what it's worth, that his life is almost at an end.
ANLGONG VENG, THAI/CAMBODIA BORDER - 04/01
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01.19 WS Pol Pot walking with aides.
01.23 MS Pol Pot getting into car.
01.44 VISION ENDS.
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[@Youtubeviewerwhoiscool]

Dude still has the audacity to complain about medical issues as he is being cared for

[@pendantairplane]

This man was worse than Hitler yet got to live to his 70s

[@usedatgamingnoodle5135]

Hard to be worse than hitler

[@osees5197]

Someone should have kicked that cane out from under him... at the very least

[@nurmanurma4879]

Gua juga marah banget lihat iblis ini

[@waseemabbas-fc6zd]

it is sad that went out from this world without getting punishment of his worst crimes against the humanity

[@SobaYatai]

at least for sure hell does exist for asians, lol

[@firstnamelastname6699]

@@SobaYatai whaaaat

[@SobaYatai]

@@firstnamelastname6699 you heard it right.

[@veteranpg3d156]

@@firstnamelastname6699 hmmmm

[@FenriZz]

​@@SobaYataiwe dunno

[@michaellynes3540]

Pol Pot should have stood trial for his crimes.

[@pycckue_u4yt]

Last true communist

[@curple3]

Last i checked, Karl Marx was fundamentally against nationalism, and fundamentally in favour of industrialisation

[@pycckue_u4yt]

@@curple3, communism is not a cult of Marx's personality, so it is quite normal to disagree with his opinion. Suffice it to recall that Marx was neither a worker nor a capitalist, but led a marginal lifestyle.

[@joxvaldevazs5982]

​@@pycckue_u4yt you're right, it's not, but Marx integrated and centered communism on at least a few basics, that he didn't even create, they were discussed before he wrote them. Neither fervorous nationalism, racial genocides, hate to industrial production are part of communism. Communism is not whatever whoever wants it to be. Neither is having Ronald Reagan and the CIA as an ally like the Red Khmers did, to kill innocent vietnameses.

[@IhateSugarcoating]

Communism is a piece of shit.

[@pycckue_u4yt]

@Dark_Fox97652, name one alive