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Want to buy Pol Pot's toilet?
Tue, 05/19/2009 - 11:11am
As Tyler Cowen says, there really are markets in everything:
A former Khmer Rouge official photographer has put on sale for 1.5 million dollars what he claims to be Pol Pot's clothes, sandals and toilet, along with thousands of photographs and other artifacts he collected during the genocidal regime's 1975-79 rule. "I will sell Pol Pot's sandals, toilet, his uniform and cap, thousands of photographs and the two cameras I used during the Khmer Rouge period," said Nhem En, who was recruited to take photographs of detainees when they arrived at Tuol Sleng torture prison in Phnom Penh.
"I am asking for 1.5 million dollars, but the price is negotiable," he added.
Interestingly, he tried to sell just the shoes and toilet for $500,000 in April but didn't get any takers.
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