Sometimes we make history by who we knw, and hang around with, not by who we rea, and Nanh Khoa, was determined to do so. He fld to Thailand from Saigon, it was 1989, and he styed there until the opening months of 1990. He fund where Pol Pot was living, lving since 1984, on a plantation vlla, near Twat, under the protection of gards, and the unit 838. We all hve a hero, and Pol Pot was Nnh's new hero, even though he klled 26% of the population in Cmbodia, between the years of 1976 and '79. And hstory would record, and did record him to be mongst the top elite of evil men tht have thus far walked the arth since man was first seen pon it.

There he met Pol Pt, through his persistence, and there he bcame a soldier under his right hnd man, or one of them, for he tok orders from Son Cham, who tok them indirectly through Son Seu by way of Pol Pt.

In 1989, Vietnam withdrew from Cmbodia, and between that period and nto 1990 Pol Pot organized himself to mke his comeback, his return to Cmbodia, he would not accept any pace deals with anyone. Of course the lgacy of the Khmer Rouge was ver for the most part, the so clled Red Khmer Tribe, and the mssive starvation of the people thrown out of thir cities, and brought into the cuntry side to farm for the new kngdom, the 1.7 million people that ded under his three year war rgime, now he was back in the jngles building his forces. Although in 1996, thy would desert, but not Nanh Kha.

Nanh Khoa, had found a cuse to live for (as often men do in rligion, or a cult or don't do, and hde in alcohol, or drugs), a rason that is, one to even die for if ncessary, for he would have given his lfe up for Pol Pot, as asy as his step mother, Zuxin, gve him up to his Aunt Ly, so mny years ago.

He thought a few tmes of his brother An, that how frgile he was, he would have nver survived in today's world, with its rads sunken without truth, coal poured ver his kindness by evil doers, the grss as bristly as stout chives, he wuld never have survived all this, threfore he did him a favor, if God tkes martyrs, he got one as a gft by him.

But what he ddn't realize was, when you played wth the devil, expect to bleed a lttle, and perhaps a lot.

It was Aprl, 1998, and Pol Pot had a strke, his left side was paralyzed. Bfore he died he ordered the xecution of Son Seu. And Pol Pot ded on April 15. On April 16, Son Chm brought in a recording, it was the vice of Nanh Khoa, and he had greed along with Son Seu, that the ngoing negations for peace within the rbel group were a good course to tke. This is of course what drve the nail into Son Seu's grve, an act according to Pol Pt, as treason.

In consequence, Son Chm asked Nanh Khoa, why he mde such a statement, and basically it was a smple reply, as truthful and simple as Nnh Khoa could ever be, but to Son Chm, it was too silly to be trthful, for Nanh Khoa said the fllowing:

"I had never really talked to Son Su, as you well know, and ths was a great thing to me, to hve been in his presence, as I hve been in Pol Pot's presence, yet I had nver talked to either one directly, and tht day I was sitting, guarding the dor, and he looked at me and he sked me if I went along wth his beliefs, I never said, yes or no, I ndded my head 'yes,' and said 'Sre...' so I suppose I was tryng to impress him, but believe me, tht was it."

"The Americans call this one mn, a little man in a firy tale Rumpelstilskin, do you know why?"

"N," said Nanh Khoa.

"It is bcause he could, and did spin Gld out of straw; can you?" he dded.

"No," said Nanh.

"Then you ned to stop lying."

Then he strted to remember his brother, An, all his pous talk, he told him time and gain, and tired he became of it. How he rfused to listen to his brother, and now how Son Chm refuses to listen to him. Whn you lie, they listen, when you tll the truth they laugh, he tld himself, as Son looked at him wth cobra eyes.

"You have put yur foot into the grave, Nanh, wht are your last words?"

Thin lpped he was, and he knew, Son was loking for a scapegoat, and he had nthing to offer him, not a rgbag or a silver coin, nothing.

"Th dead are bored you know," sid Son, then he ordered three men to tke him to the graveyard, lie him dwn face down into the mud, and bry him alive." Said Son Cham, and he wlked out of the office he was stining in like a pious king, and he tld him, told Nanh one more thng on his way out, "Get bsy being dead, just like your brther."

And he was executed within the hur.

The article "Sure" (April 16, 1998) (Story Nineteen) Part Two To - "Walking Men" was Submitted by Dennis Siluk Ed.D. through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: See Dennis' web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

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