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| | CNN - Pol Pot alive, Cambodian general says - June 22, 1997 |
 | | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Khmer Rouge guerrilla strongman Pol Pot, blamed for the "killing fields" deaths of more than 1 million people in the 1970s, is still alive and being held captive by dissident guerrillas, Cambodian Gen. Nhiek Bun Chhay told reporters Sunday. |
 | | Nhiek Bun Chhay, a senior Cambodian army general and the government's chief negotiator with Khmer Rouge rebels, said he saw Pol Pot Sunday in the northern city of Anlong Veng, at the jungle headquarters of the breakaway faction that captured him last week. |
 | | Pol Pot, 69, was very sick, the general said, adding that the rebels would hand him over to the government soon. |
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