Pol Pot Part 4: The Killing Fields

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pol Pot constructs a secretive one-party state. Cambodia descends into hell as his twisted social experiment begins. Finally, the shifting sands of geopolitics will create challenges for the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot will be forced back into the jungle. But even then, the man with untold blood on his hands will somehow evade justice. A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith. Many thanks to Elizabeth Becker and University of Washington Libraries for archive audio. This is Part 4 of 4. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's April 1977, a barmy evening in the south of Cambodia's capital, Penampen.
0:09.4	An angular man in his mid-30s sits in his office.
0:13.7	At his desk he flicks through the day's paperwork.
0:17.4	His name is Doik.
0:19.6	He's a former schoolmaster.
0:21.8	He's working in what used to be a high school.
0:24.1	But these are not homework assignments or report cards before him.
0:29.9	This educational establishment was once an elegant, inviting sort of place,
0:35.3	with its colonnades and courtyard of coconut palms.
0:39.2	But now, it serves as a prison.
0:42.8	And Comrade Doik is its governor.
0:46.2	The five blocks at the compound are surrounded by electrified barbed wire.
0:50.8	I am bars cover the windows.
0:53.9	This is Security Prison 21 or S21 for short.
1:00.0	It is the most feared address in Cambodia.
1:03.9	Ordered by the country's secretive leader, Pol Pot, to root out and punish all rivals,
1:09.7	Doik is going through the latest batch of confessions.
1:14.0	Page after page details attempts to undermine the Khmer Rouge regime.
1:19.5	But Doik knows not to take them at face value.
1:22.7	Most of the confessions are the result of prolonged torture.
1:26.8	Under duress, prisoners spin elaborate stories.
1:31.0	With the least believable confessions, Doik orders the prisoners be tortured some more,
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