guest house in Phnom Penh where the three were staying in a mood described as "euphoric". At about 11:00 p.m. that night Becker was awakened by the sound of gunfire. She stepped out of her bedroom and saw a heavily armed Cambodian man who pointed a pistol at her. She ran back into her room and heard people moving and more gunshots. An hour later a Cambodian came to her bedroom door and told her that Caldwell was dead. She and Dudman went to his room. He had been shot in the chest and the body of a Cambodian man was also in the room, possibly the same man who had pointed the pistol at Becker. The motives for Caldwell's murder remain unexplained. Andrew Anthony, writing in The Guardian, notes: "Certainly there must have been some kind of in-house involvement, as the guests were guarded. But who instructed the guards, and why they did so, remains a subject of speculation." Journalist Wilfred Burchett and some of Caldwell's family members believe that Caldwell was killed on the orders of Pol Pot, possibly following a disagreement between the two during their meeting. This belief was also shared by Australian historian and friend of Caldwell Keith Windschuttle, who claimed that Caldwell had been shot by 'two of Pol Pot's henchmen'. Alternatively, four of the guards at the guest house were arrested and two of them "confessed" after torture at the Khmer Rouge's S-21 prison that the killers were subversives attempting to undermine the Khmer Rouge regime and that Caldwell was killed "to prevent the Party from gathering friends in the world". Three days after Caldwell was killed, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and soon put an end to the Khmer Rouge government. According to Becker, "Malcolm Caldwell's death was caused by the madness of the regime he openly admired." Works (1979) Lee Kuan Yew: The Man, His Mayoralty and His Mafia. See also List of unsolved murders Cambodian genocide denial Vann Nath Chum Mey Sean Flynn Dana Stone Stuart Robert Glass François Bizot François Ponchaud References External links An account of the night Caldwell was killed excerpted from Becker's When the War was Over Andrew Anthony "Lost in Cambodia", The Observer, 10 January 2010 Michael Ezra "Malcolm Caldwell: Pol Pot's Apologist", Democratiya, No. 16, Spring/Summer 2009 (.pdf) 1931 births 1978 deaths Academics of SOAS University of London Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British