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Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979. He oversaw mass atrocities and is widely believed to be one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 ( c. 7.8 million).
In July 1963, Pol Pot and most of the central committee left Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province in the northeast. Pol Pot had shortly before been put on a list of thirty-four leftists whom Sihanouk summoned to join the government and sign statements saying Sihanouk was the only possible leader for the country.
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Ethnic Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Cham along side Cambodian Christians, and Buddhist monks were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Pot has been described as "a genocidal tyrant". [2] Sociologist Martin Shaw described the Cambodian genocide as "the purest genocide of the Cold War era". [3]
Pol Pot, in turn, intends to take advantage of the peace process to extend his men's control throughout the country, sabotaging the planned elections. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] To facilitate peace negotiations, Vietnam removed its troops from Cambodia and Laos: on May 26, 1988, the Hanoi government announced that all its forces would leave Cambodia in ...
Reporter Nate Thayer survived several brushes with death while covering Southeast Asia conflict and was the last journalist to interview dictator Pol Pot.
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War [c] was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war began with repeated attacks by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army on the southwestern border of Vietnam, particularly the Ba Chúc massacre which resulted in the deaths of over ...