US wanted to bring Pol Pot to Sweden: report

David LandesThe Local (Sweden)
Recently declassified documents reveal that Sweden was among the countries the United States looked to for help in an effort to bring Pol Pot, the late leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement, to trial.According to previously classified documents from 1998 recently reviewed by Sveriges Radio (SR), Sweden rebuffed the US request for assistance in arranging a trial for Pol Pot, whose policies are believed to have resulted in the death of more than 1 million people in Cambodia in the 1970s.The documents explain that in 1998, when Pol Pot was under house arrest and days before his death on April 15th, “representatives from American authorities” approached personnel with Sweden’s foreign ministry to discuss a secret plan to bring Pol Pot to trial.Other sources told SR the plan was to have Pol Pot taken to neighbouring Thailand where he would be put on an American plane and flown to Sweden, although the plan is not described in the declassified documents.