With guns stuttering in the background, the cremation was so rushed that not even Pol Pot’s second wife, Mea Son, 40, or their 14-year old-daughter, Sith, attended. The guerrillas said that the ...

Khan Soeun was a military commander. After Pol Pot’s death, Mea Son and her daughter reportedly settled in Phnom Malai, a former guerrilla base on the Thai border. Pol Pot headed the brutal ...

Patchata's mother, Mea Son, married Pol Pot – whose real name was Saloth Sar – in the mid 1980s after he fled Phnom Penh and was waging bloody war from the Cambodian-Thai border. Following Pol ...

He told reporters that Pol Pot had died at 11:15 the previous night in the two-storied house the family lived in just north of Anlong Veng. He was apparently discovered by his wife Mea Son when she ...

Patchata, 26, is the only daughter of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths during Democratic Kampuchea’s brutal agrarian-based dictatorship of 1975 to ...