Apr 19, 1998 · Pol Pot's widow, Mea Son, said Friday that he had died quietly in his bed after eating a dinner of rice. Khmer Rouge officials said the cause of death was a heart attack.

Jun 14, 2021 · On April 15, 1998, Pol Pot died in his sleep due to heart failure. His death came shortly after "the Khmer Rouge leadership had decided to hand him over to an international tribunal," as reported by the Phnom Penh Post.

Apr 17, 1998 · Thai authorities said Pol Pot’s present wife had discovered his death when she went to hang a mosquito net around his bed. In the television footage, there were a few flowers on the bed...

Apr 17, 1998 · Televised footage from the Khmer Rouge's jungle haven tonight showed Pol Pot's lifeless body, arms at the sides, stretched out on a simple wooden bed, a green blanket partially covering his...

Apr 17, 1998 · Five foreign journalists were escorted by Khmer Rouge guerrillas across the Thai border into northern Cambodia today to confirm the death of Pol Pot, the 73-year-old Khmer Rouge founder. Pol...

Apr 18, 1998 · Khmer Rouge rebels, holding Pol Pot died of heart attack, rush to cremate body, rejecting Cambodian Government and United States calls for autopsy; move spurs speculation that he was killed...

Journalists who were shown his body in a village in western Cambodia were told he had died of a heart attack. After initial scepticism most of the journalists said they were confident it was Pol...

Apr 23, 1998 · On April 10, five days before his death, Pol Pot dyed his gray hair black to fool the Khmer Rouge troops who had mutinied and were fighting on the side of the Phnom Penh government's forces.

Khmer Rouge officers said Pol Pot's wife discovered his body when she went to tuck in the mosquito net around the small cot where he slept in a sparsely furnished room. They said his death...

Between 1975 and 1979, Pot perpetrated the Cambodian genocide, in which an estimated 1.5–2 million people died—approximately one-quarter of the country's pre-genocide population. In December 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to remove the Khmer Rouge from power.