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- Pol Pot was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979.
- Pol Pot was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979.
- Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge's totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia responsible for the deaths of more than one million.
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Khmer Rouge History
Khmer (pdf)
Significant portions of the following historical overview were contributed by DC-Cam from Khamboly Dy’s “A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979).”
Overview
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. The CPK created the state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1976 and ruled the country until January 1979. The party’s existence was kept secret until 1977, and no one outside the CPK knew who its leaders were (the leaders called themselves “Angkar Padevat”).
While the Khmer Rouge was in power, they set up policies that disregarded human life and produced repression and massacres on a massive scale. They turned the country into a huge detention center, which later became a graveyard for nearly two million people, including their own members and even some senior leaders.
The Rise of the Khmer Rouge
The Cambodian communist movement emerged from the country’s struggle against French colonization 1940s, and was influenced by the Viet
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Pol Pot, leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government, dies in his sleep
Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields, dies of apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge, organized by Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle in the 1960s, advocated a radical communist revolution that would wipe out Western influences in Cambodia and set up a solely agrarian society. In 1970, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, Khmer Rouge guerrillas began a large-scale insurgency against Cambodian government forces, soon gaining control of nearly a third of the country.
By 1973, secret U.S. bombings of Cambodian territory controlled by the Vietnamese communists forced the Vietnamese out of the country, creating a power vacuum that was soon filled by Pol Pot’s rapidly growing Khmer Rouge movement. In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, overthrew the pro-U.S. regime, and established a new government, the Kampuchean People’s Republic.
As the new ruler of Cambodia, Pol Po
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Pol Pot
Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998)
In this Cambodian name, the surname is Pol. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Pot.
Pol Pot | |
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| In office 22 February 1963 – 6 December 1981 | |
| Deputy | Nuon Chea |
| Preceded by | Tou Samouth (1962) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished (party dissolved) |
| In office 25 October 1976 – 7 January 1979 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Khieu Samphan (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Nuon Chea (1981) |
| In office 14 April 1976 – 27 September 1976 | |
| President | Khieu Samphan |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Khieu Samphan (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Nuon Chea (acting) |
| In office 1977–1979 | |
| In office 1981–1985 | |
| Preceded by | Himself (as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea) |
| Succeeded by | Khieu Samphan |
| Born | Saloth Sâr (1925-05-25)25 May 1925 Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia, French Indochina |
| Died | 15 April 1998(1998-04-15) (aged 72) Choam, Trapeang Prei [km], Anlong V Copyright ©bernate.pages.dev 2025 |