Pol Pot

=== Cultic activities around Pol Pot's tomb ===
{{See|Cult of personality|List of cults of personality#Cambodia}}
A number of [[cult]]ic activities and practices have been observed around Pol Pot's grave.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Guillou|first=Anne Yvonne|date=2018|title=The "Master of the Land": cult activities around Pol Pot's tomb|url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02531875|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|language=en|volume=20|issue=2|pages=275–289|doi=10.1080/14623528.2018.1459169|s2cid=81694769}}</ref> People from [[Anlong Veng District|Anlong Veng]], but also from other parts of Cambodia, go to his grave to make offerings of food on certain holy days, including the [[Festival of the Dead]] and the [[Cambodian New Year]]. Some people make daily offerings of food, as well as more significant offerings such as a pig's head and court music sang by an orchestra.<ref name=":5" /> Amanda Pike, an [[Investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] who has visited Cambodia, states that some of Pol Pot's supporters still cling to his memory and ideology and she also states that some fervent believers still worship him.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Pike|first=Amanda|date=October 2002|title=Cambodia - Pol Pot's Shadow.|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/thestory.html|access-date=|website=[[Public Broadcasting Service]]}}</ref> She reports that these people dig through Pol Pot's ashes and snatch up fragments of his bones to take away as [[talisman]]s.<ref name=":2" /> Cambodian villagers say that they dream of Pol Pot and afterwards they win the lottery or become cured from [[malaria]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Pike|first=Amanda|date=October 2002|title=Anlong Veng - Pol Pot's Grave|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/diary06.html|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[Public Broadcasting Service]]}}</ref> In addition, people kneel down near his grave and start praying. They chant: "All your children are here, Grandpa. Don't say that we've forgotten you". They ask for good health and for their children to be educated, just like Pol Pot was.<ref name=":4" /> When asked about why they go to Pol Pot's grave, some say they knew him personally. Others say that they go to pay their respects to a former leader. Most seem to perceive that some part of the world thinks of Pol Pot in a negative light, however they insist that he was a supporter of the common farmer and a defender of Cambodia.<ref name=":4" /> There have also been cases of people dreaming of Pol Pot and [[sleepwalking]] all the way to his grave.<ref name=":4" />