Pol Pot (52 page)

Below left:
Ieng Sary
(left)
and Keng Vannsak, at the latter’s apartment in Paris, c.1951.

Below right:
Sary’s close friend, Rath Samoeun, co-founder of the Cercle Marxiste.

A portrait of Son Ngoc Minh, the first Cambodian communist leader, is carried in procession by Party militants, c.1952.

His successor, Tou Samouth, who became Party Secretary in 1960.

Keo Meas, leader of the Pracheachon group.

Khieu Ponnary
(right),
with her sister, Thirith, and Keng Vannsak’s mother-in-law, Madame Collineau, in Paris, c.1950.

King Sihanouk is borne in state beneath a palanquin to preside over the ceremony of sacred furrow.

Above:
Khieu Samphân in the role of Sitha, the heroine of the
Reamker,
at celebrations in Paris marking the 2500th anniversary of the birth of Buddha (1957).

Below: (From right)
Keat Chhon, Thiounn Mumm, Prince Sihanouk and
(upper left)
Chhorn Hay, at the same occasion.

Right:
Son Sen as Director of Studies at the Phnom Penh Teacher Training College, 1958.

Left:
Sihanouk and Queen Kossamak with Jacqueline Kennedy, who visited Cambodia in 1968.

Below: Government-sponsored mob sacks the North Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh in March 1970

On Sihanouk’s orders, the army commander, Lon Nol (
above left
), organised public executions of captured Khmer Serei in the 1960s. In the civil war which followed, government troops took the heads of communist soldiers as trophies.