Pol Pot's house on top of Dangrek Mountains

Top: Pol Pot's house and above is an all-season lake located next to the house.

Source: Koh Santepheap newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization

An abandoned house overgrown by bushes looks like any other ordinary abandoned house, but unlike any other ordinary house, this is not an ordinary house for it holds historical significance for one of the unforgettable, or if you may say it, a rather forgettable, event in the 20th century, the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge murderous regime.

This is Pol Pot's house, a house built in the 1980s on top of the Dangrek Mountains a long the Khmer-Thai border and it has fallen into dereliction since it was abandoned 11 years ago.

The house, 8 metres by 12 metres, was built with bricks and bagged with concrete with underground tunnels crisscrossing beneath it. The house is surrounded with many fruit trees such as mango trees and other big trees that give a cool shade to the house surrounds. Two concrete water tanks were built near the house and an all-season lake is situated nearby to make sure that Pol Pot will never run out of water. There is also a cowshed measuring 1000 squared metres. Read more!