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Rebels with Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge carry their flag as they parade down a street in Phnom Penh hours after they took control of the Cambodian capital April 17, 1975. Nearly 23 years to the day that his forces took control of the southeast Asian nation, Pol Pot died of heart faliure Wedensday April 15, 1998. Pol Pot ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, killing everyone who stood in the way of remaking the country into a Marxist agrarian regime. Some 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, illness or execution. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Str) === ===