Pol Pot (53 page)

Saloth Sâr, shortly before he took the name Pol in Ratanakiri in 1969, and (
below, front row, centre
) at the CPK’s Third Congress held in the jungle near the Chinit river in 1971, in a hall decorated with portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

Prince Sihanouk and his wife, Monique, in Khmer Rouge uniform, outside what she described as ‘our White House in the liberated zone’, at Mount Kulen in 1973.

Sihanouk with
(from right, front row)
Hu Nim, Khieu Samphân and Monique at Stung Treng, at the start of their visit to the ‘liberated zone’, and
(below)
, inspecting a Khmer Rouge field kitchen.

Khmer Rouge women’s battalion on the march, c.1974. The scene is reproduced on one of the Khmer Rouge banknotes printed in China the following winter. The notes, which were never issued, show Angkor Wat and other historic monuments as well as idealised scenes of the society Pol Pot wished to create.

Above:
Ieng Sary and Ambassador Sun Hao
(second and fourth from right)
with Chinese diplomats at their jungle ‘embassy’ near Tasanh, April 1979.

Left:
Chinese government passport issued to Ieng Sary, under the assumed name of Su Hao, following the Vietnamese invasion.

Below:
Deng Xiaoping greets Sihanouk at Beijing Airport on January
6
1979.

Pol Pot celebrated his sixtieth birthday by remarrying and starting a family. One of the cruellest of the Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea
(above),
living up to his alias, ‘Grand-Uncle’, holds Pol’s daughter, Sitha, at the age of six months, in October 1986. Pol poses with the children of his aides
(below left),
and goes sightseeing in Thailand with his wife, Meas
(far left),
probably the same year.