To this day, the trial of Pol Pot in July 1997 in Anlong Veng remains an underexplored topic, possibly because it is seen as a parody of justice organised by a rival Khmer Rouge faction. Images of the event show an old and fragile man who has to be supported by guards to the meeting hall. Drawing on anthropologist Ashley Thompson’s study of the ‘substitute body of the king’, the paper examines the corporeal strategies at play in the trial and in the display and cremation of Pol Pot’s body in April 1998. Using a range of materials (articles in media, pictures, videos, and artworks), it brings into conversation ‘forensic aesthetics’, performance theory, and contemporary visual arts to investigate the role of Pol Pot’s body as a political tool in the troubled context of post-transition Cambodia.

直到今天，1997 年 7 月在 Anlong Veng 对波尔布特的审判仍然是一个未充分探讨的话题，可能是因为它被视为由敌对的红色高棉派系组织的对正义的模仿。事件图像显示，一名年老体弱的男子必须在警卫的支持下才能进入会议厅。借鉴人类学家阿什利汤普森对“国王的替代尸体”的研究，该论文研究了 1998 年 4 月波尔布特尸体的审判以及展示和火化中发挥作用的肉体策略。使用一系列材料（媒体文章、图片、视频和艺术品），它将“法医美学”、表演理论和当代视觉艺术带入对话，以调查波尔布特的身体在柬埔寨转型后的困境背景下作为政治工具的作用。