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Thursday •June 19,
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot surrenders*
Former comrades will request judgement *
by international tribune, general says
Pol Pot surrenders
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)
— Pol Pot, the revolutionary who
turned Cambodia’s lush country
side into a vast death camp, has
surrendered to defectors from his
fast-disintegrating Khmer Rouge
movement, a top army general
said Wednesday.
Now 69 and said to be seriously
ill, the man blamed for leading the
slaughter of as many two million
people has not been seen by the
outside world since he and his fol
lowers fled the capital in 1979. A
ragged handful of followers surren
dered with him.
“This evening, Pol Pot surren
dered with 15 people,” Gen. Nhek
Bunchhay, deputy army chief of staff,
told The Associated Press.
The general said that Pol Pot’s for
mer comrades, reportedly closing in
on him during the past week, will ask
an international tribunal to judge Pol
Pot for running one of history’s most
vicious regimes.
Remnants of his genocidal rule
are found in the mounds of skulls still
being unearthed all over Cambodia.
The 1984 film The Killing Fields
spread the story of the terror inflict
ed during his Maoist-inspired
regime’s frenzied bid to create an
agrarian utopia.
The general said Pol Pot gave him
self up in the Khmer Rouge northern
stronghold of AnlongVeng. With him
were Khieu Samphan, the Khmer
Rouge’s figurehead president, andTa
Mok, a general known as “The Butch
er” for his brutality, he said.
Nhek Bunchhay is the govern
ment’s chief negotiator with the
Khmer Rouge. However, his reports
occasionally
Pol Pot
have fallen
through or ap
peared distorted
for partisan po
litical advantage.
A clandestine
Khmer Rouge ra
dio broadcast
hinted at the sur
render, and
Nhek Bunchhay
said he con
firmed it during a visit to the area. *
The radio’s unexplained report that
Pol Pot had “confessed” appeared to
lend credibility to the general’s claim.
In a notable toning-down of the
guerrillas’ usual anti-Vietnamese
rhetoric, recent radio announce
ments have spoken of living in peace
with neighboring countries. But the
station had been off the air since Fri
day, and it was impossible to know
who is behind the microphone.
Pol Pot reportedly fled his north
ern stronghold of Anlong Veng last
week with a small band of loyalists. It
was not certain, however, whether
everyone traveling with him was do
ing so voluntarily; some may have
been hostages.
The general flew to AnlongVeng
earlier in the day to cement the de
fections of about 1,000 guerrillas,
whom the radio suggested had taken
Pol Pot into custody.
Nhek Bunchhay indicated that Pol
Pot may have been forced to surren
der because he had run out of food
and medicine. The general said Pol
Pot’s wife surrendered with him. Pol
Pot is believed to have married in 1986
or 1987 to a woman known only as Sar.
Some officials in Cambodia’s di
vided government have said that Pol
Pot was so sick he had to be carried
from Anlong Veng. He supposedly
has been fighting malaria, though
there was no independent confirma
tion. Onlymembers of his tight, in
ner circle have reported seeing him
in the past year; leading to occasion
al rumors of his death.
The Khmer Rouge has been mar
ginalized since at least 1991, when it
joined all Cambodian factions a
peace agreement. They soon re
neged and returned to the bush in
1992. Since then, bereft of foreign al
lies, plagued by local commanders’
defections and unable to mount any
military offensive, the Khmer Rouge
has been able to hold on only to lim
ited, rugged jungle areas.
Reports of Pol Pot’s surrender
came late Wednesday evening.
There was little immediate reac
tion in the capital, which was
tense following a Tuesday night
shoot-out between supporters of
the nation’s rival co-premiers.
Both sides claimed the fight start-
Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, surrendered to his former
Khmer Rouge comrades. The guerrillas plan to hold him
for judgement by an international tribunal for his role in the
genocidal regime he led between 1975 and 1979.
Khmer Rouge facts
# Khmer Rouge guerrillas captured
Phnom Penh in 1975 after a 5-year
civil war.
THAILAND
Last area of
rebel control
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Phnom Penh and other towns were
forcibly evacuated. Cambodians were
forced into rural communes to build a
collective, agrarian society.
Anlong Vciij>
Mekong
i River
At least 2 million people died
during the Khmer’s rule. Mass death
occurred through starvation, disease
and overwork. They killed anyone with
an education, including doctors.
Thousands were executed in internal
purges.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia and the
Khmer Rouge regime fell in 1979.
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The Khmer Rouge began
disintegrating in 1996. In the early
months of 1997, government troops
targeted remaining guerrillas in their
stronghold of Preah Vihear Province.
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ed with an assassination attempt by
the other. Their coalition govern
ment has been unstable since the
United Nations pieced it together in
1993 after years of civil war.
Tension between Cambodia’s two
premiers — Prince Norodom Ra
nariddh and Hun Sen — has height
ened since tlie Khmer Rouge collapse.
Hun Sen accuses the prince of illegal
ly negotiating with guen illa leaders.
Though the Khmer Rouge is weak,
both sides in Cambodia’s polaii
government coalition want to|
supporters — and their weapon
from among the group’s estimi
10,000 guerrillas. Pol Pot madei
difficult.
Cambodians, taught for ye ™
to hate him, and the internatio
community likely would notsi
port any deal with the Khn as 1
Rouge that would include orp
tect him.
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U.S. Embassy closes; more fighting feared
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP)
— Brazzaville residents took advantage of
a lull in fighting Wednesday to prepare to
flee the capital, while a U.N. envoy tried to
avert renewed violence.
For the first time in days, residents
heard no gunshots or mortar explo
sions, thanks to a three-day cease-fire
that began at midnight Tuesday. Chil
dren returned to the streets to play,
while their parents hurriedly packed
their belongings to be ready when the
cease-fire expires.
U.N. envoy Mohamed Sahnoun,
hoping to broker a lasting peace, held
separate talks in Brazzaville with the
leaders of the two factions struggling
for power: President Pascal Lissouba
and former dictator Gen. Denis Sas-
sou-Nguesso.
Signs were not encouraging. Lissou
ba emerged from his meeting with Sah
noun saying his government had sole
power over Brazzaville’s airport, even
though the truce stipulates it is to be
monitored by both government soldiers
and Sassou-Nguesso’s fighters.
“We have on the one hand this young
democracy which wants to live,” Lis
souba said. “On the other side, I do not
know what they want.”
Sassou-Nguesso called Wednesday
for an independent “transitional au
thority” to pave the way for elections.
“President Lissouba has never applied
the constitution. We know he cannot or
ganize elections,” Sassou-Nguesso said.
Brazzaville Mayor Bernard Kolelas,
who has led mediation efforts, also met
Sahnoun on Wednesday. He said peace
talks broke down this week in neigh
boring Gabon, apparently over Sassou-
Nguesso’s demands for international
observers to form part of an indepen
dent election commission.
Lissouba insisted Sassou-Nguesso
stick to an earlier agreement under
which an all-Congolese body would
oversee the vote, scheduled for July 27
but likely to be delayed because of the
fighting. Lissouba, Sassou-Nguesso and
Kolelas all are running for president,
and all have private militias in the cap
ital. Kolelas has not joined the fighting.
JUNETEENTH
Continued from Page 1
Michael Stewart, president of the Pan-Hellenj
Council and a senior mechanical engineering m
jor, said he was surprised more black students we
not at the event.
“It’s summer at A&M and there are 15,000 students!
cc
If you aren’t working for
the struggle, then what are
you doing?
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Michael Stewart
Pan-Hellenic Council president
HUD
Highway
Continued from Page 1
The Northgate renovations were planned in 1995, and tlie
city purchased buildings in the Northgate area, including the
building where Burger Boy is located. The city contends that the
College Main project and the Northgate project are separate.
Mcllhaney said HUD in Washington should not consider
the two projects one federal project.
“It was taken to Washington and the people in Washington
are saying, ‘Hey, you had a project near this area four years ago,
so they are the same project,”’ Mcllhaney said. “This dilemma
is that if a city uses federal funds for street funds, then Wash
ington can say, ‘You used federal funds for this project (College
Main) so you are under URA for this [Northgate] project.’”
Mcllhaney said that the city is aware of URA regula
tions and the city never doubted it was complying with
URA regulations.
The city will address HUD’s decision at tonight’s city coun
cil meeting.
Continued from Page 1
“I am glad our legislature did
something to recognize the veterans
who served in the Korean War,” Ve
lasquez said. “It’s terrible, so this will
do something for them.”
Velasquez, a Vietnam War vet
eran who acts as the commander
ofVFWPost 4692 in representing
all veterans, said he intends to
improve the image of veterans in
the Bryan-College Station area by
working with the local govern
ment to erect memorials.
Larry Vaughn, a Korean War vet
eran, said he feels honored by the
state’s naming the highway after
Korean veterans.
“It’s about... time the state hon
ored Korean veterans with some
thing,” Vaughn said. “I just wish it
was with money.”
The Texas Department of
Transportation will mark the
highway with two large signs.
Markers recognizing the veterans
will be placed along the highway
at intermediate sites.
The Texas Legislature in the
68th session declared U.S. High
way 83 the Texas Vietnam Veter
ans’ Memorial Highway. State
Highway 71 has been designated
the 10th Mountain Division
Memorial Highway, and State
Highway 36 is named the 36th Di
vision Memorial Highway.
Action should begin on the high
way by the end of this month.
campus,” Stewart said, “yet 1 look around this roomai
I don’t see many people. I see a lot of [black] students
parties, yet I don’t see them at this event.”
Stewart said many people complain abouttheeffec
of Hopwood and the oppression of African-American [j,
yet many do nothing about these issues.
“If you aren’t working for the struggle, then what ar
you doing?” Stewart asked. (I
Juneteenth is a day of celebration for success becaus ilei
of work, Stewart said. I m
In 1980, the Texas legislature made Juneteenthapa
official state holiday. Juneteenth, also known Ye|
Emancipation Day, was the first state-recognizedho oo
iday celebrating black freedom. OnApril 17,1997,tl taj
United States Congress decreed June 19th Juneteen sd
Independence Day by a resolution passed in ll I)
House and the Senate.
Jeffery Bailey, president of the Brazos Valley Juneteeilro
Committee, said most public celebrations of Juneteei (i e
take place on the weekend before the holiday to aJ
greater participation in years when June 19th fallso
weekday. Many families will celebrate Juneteenth»
barbecues and family gatherings, he said.
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