The man with Star Wars-sounding name and probably the most brutal rebel leader alive is cooling his heels and tuning into Voice of America broadcasts from his tiny, stinking Phnom Penh prison cell. Thinking he'd cut a defection deal with Hun Sen, Ta Mok was busted on March 6, 1999, near the Thai border. The one-legged Ta Mok had been running what was left of the Khmer Rouge out of Anlong Veng and is known for scores of atrocities and cold-blooded murders of his own people and Western tourists. Ta Mok was the one that carried out Pol Pot's execution plans. Now, the former KR's ranking general is a can of worms and the center of an international debate on who should open it up and where. Hun Sen would like to see Ta Mok quietly tried for tax evasion in a Phnom Penh court presided over by barbers and cyclo drivers turned judges, and hopes that he simply dies of old age before they get to the juicier charges: genocide, kidnapping and murder.
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