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From: Bob Necci & Carol Hrdlicka, Andi Wolos
(POW-MIA FaxNetwork)

Re: Pol Pot - Nightline TV - Article

Date: July 28, 1997

Ted Koeppel has planned a special report on Pol Pot and Cambodia on the Monday, July 28th broadcast of Nightline. Please check your local listings for time and channel.

This follows on the reports that journalist, Nate Thayer, saw Pol Pot this week at Anlong Veng, in northern Cambodia. Thayer's story is scheduled to be published August 7 in the Far Eastern Economic Review. According to reports by the clandestine Khmers Rouges radio, Pol Pot, who it was hoped would be turned over for a War Crimes Tribunal, was sentenced locally to life imprisonment. They also stated that 'thousands' of people were a part of the sentencing process and that foreign journalists/observers had been present.

It should be noted that the region of Anlong Veng, long a stronghold of Khmers Rouges core activity, is still a no-man's land. Hun Sen, who is currently running Cambodia after a violent coup, does not have control over the region.

< The radio broadcast of Pol Pot's sentencing and condemnation is seen as a possible means for the remaining, disaffected Khmers to distance themselves from the bloody, brutal history they created.