Hundreds of followers and relatives today buried notorious former Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok.

Ta Mok, the former military commander of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge and a chief architect of the regime’s atrocities, died today in a military hospital.

Cambodian officials burned more than 3,500 guns, rocket launchers and other munitions in a ceremony meant to help expunge the former Khmer Rouge stronghold’s association with Pol Pot, the group’s leader who lived out his final years in the village of Anlong Veng.