Khmer Rouge dissidents yesterday claimed, for the second time this week, that they had Pol Pot in their custody after scoring a "very meaningful victory" over the Maoist whose four years in power caused the deaths of two million Cambodians.
In a broadcast from their clandestine jungle transmitter which could not be independently confirmed and will produce some scepticism, the Khmer Rouge declared "the Pol Pot regime is finished completely. Pol Pot has confessed."
A crowd of 3,000 people rallied near Anlong Veng, Pol Pot's vast jungle headquarters also now controlled by dissidents, and they "cheered on hearing the news", the radio announced.
