General Says Pol Pot Has Surrendered

Pol Pot, the revolutionary who turned Cambodia’s lush countryside into a vast death camp, has surrendered to defectors from his fast-disintegrating Khmer Rouge movement, a top army general said. Now 69 and said to be seriously ill, the man blamed for leading the slaughter of as many as 2 million people has not been seen by the outside world since he and his followers fled the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1979. “This evening, Pol Pot surrendered with 15 people,� said Gen. Nhek Bunchhay, deputy army chief of staff. The general said that Pol Pot’s former comrades, reported 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.