Malai district

'The Batch of Flower') is a district (srok) in the south west of Banteay Meanchey Province, in north-western Cambodia.

The long narrow district shares a border with Thailand to the north and west and with Battambang province to the south.

Like many former Khmer Rouge held areas of the country of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979), infrastructure is in poor condition or is non-existent.

Khunnal is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and was part of the rebel group's delegation to the United Nations during the 1980s.

He was a close associate of Pol Pot and on one occasion translated for the KR leader during a rare interview with a western journalist in 1997.

After Pot's death in 1998, Khunnal married the deceased leader's wife and moved to Malai district in Banteay Meanchey.