For sale: Pol Pot's sandals

A photographer for the Khmer Rouge is to auction items associated with the brutal Cambodian regime to fund construction of a museum.

A pair of sandals worn by leader Pol Pot are for sale, along with cameras used to capture life under his rule.

Nhem En photographed inmates at the notorious S-21 torture centre and snapped pictures at official ceremonies for the Cambodian regime.

Now deputy governor of north-west Anlong Veng district, he hopes to use the money raised to build a museum dedicated to the period.

Up to two million people died of starvation, execution, overwork or torture under the Khmer Rouge.

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