Anlong Veng

អ ន្លុ ង វែង Anlong Veng
Coordinates	14 ° 14 ′  N , 104 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 14 ° 14 ′  N , 104 ° 5 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Cambodia
province	Oddar Meanchey
height	54 m
Residents	500

Anlong Veng ( Khmer អ ន្លុ ង វែង ) is a district in the Cambodian province of Oddar Meanchey . The headquarters of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian-Thai border was located here from 1989 to 1998 .

After internal power struggles, the base was controlled by the Ta Mok clique . According to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, between 1993 and 1997 - long after the rule of the Khmer Rouge in the rest of Cambodia - around 3,000 people were murdered in a killing field near Anlong Veng. The former head of state Pol Pot was arrested by his own party comrades in July 1997 and sentenced to life imprisonment by a “people's tribunal”. He died in April 1998, presumably by suicide .

In 2001, three years after Pol Pot's death, the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen declared the camp in northern Cambodia a historical tourist area. However, the area still has to be cleared of mines for development .

Web links

• Between horror cabinet and clothes: How the Cambodian government wants to market the historical sites of Anlong Veng as pilgrimage sites for the Khmer Rouge ( memento of March 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), on wdr.de
• Pol Pot's property as an excursion destination , on spiegel.de
• Data on Anlong Veng at Falling Rain Genomics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kelvin Rowley: Second Life, Second Death. The Khmer Rouge After 1978. Yale University Genocide Studies Program (GSP) Working Paper No. 24, 2004, p. 207.