'Ghost' Dollars offered for Pol Pot's Shoes

Author: Khmerization ខែ្មរូបនីយកម្ម

"Thursday, 21 May 2009
'Ghost' dollars offered for Pol Pot's shoes: report

Maoist Khmer Rouge movement leader Pol Pot in Anlong Veng in the mid 1990s.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — A Cambodian photographer's attempt to sell the sandals of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot has yielded only one bid -- 790,000 fake dollars offered in protest at the sale, a report said.
Nhem En, who photographed inmates at the regime's main torture centre and also snapped pictures at official regime ceremonies, announced last month he was selling the footwear along with two cameras."

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