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Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Legacy of Pol Pot: A photographic record of mass murder ... ; Photos: Archives of the Cambodian Genocide Program; ... The Legacy of Pol Pot; A photographic record of mass murder; Originally published in 2000;
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Pol Pot; Born May 19, 1925 in Prek Sbauv ; 1949 Studies left-wing politics in France ; 1953 Returns to Cambodia and joins Communist Party, which he leads a decade later ; 1975 Khmer Rouge is victor of civil war and occupies Phnom Penh;
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Pol Pot in Cambodia 1975-79 2,000,000 Deaths. ... An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.
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As in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide, in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on...
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A brief biography of Pol Pot and the devastation he brought to Cambodia. ... Pol Pot, who become responsible for the deaths of over two million of his own people, was born Saloth Sar in a small Cambodian village about 140 kilometers north of Phnom Penh.
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Fugitive leader Pol Pot's surrender to Khmer Rouge rebels was announced. Those reports have been denied. Either way, Pol Pot, blamed for the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians, has left an devastating mark on Cambodia, a country which remains in a state of political unrest.
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The Friends of Pol Pot ... If on his deathbed Pol Pot had felt moved to offer thanks to his Western collaborators, he surely would have made special mention of an unworkable U.N. "peace plan" imposed by the West and China in 1992. At the insistence of Washington and Beijing, the Khmer Rouge was included in the U.N.
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On the Side of Pol Pot: U.S. Supports Khmer Rouge ... Cline's trip to the Pol Pot camp was originally revealed in a press statement released by Khmer Rouge diplomats at the United Nations. Cline also went to Thailand as a representative of the Reagan-Bush transition team and briefed the Thai government on the new...
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