Short biography of pol pot

Cambodian head of state Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of more than one million people through execution, starvation or overwork between and

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Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, , in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia.

Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from until his overthrow in

Pol Pot was a political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from to During that time, an estimated to.

Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge's totalitarian regime (–79) in Cambodia responsible for the deaths of more than one million.

Pol Pot was leader of the Khmer Rouge, a communist regime that ruled Cambodia between and , and caused the deaths of more than one million people.

Cambodian head of state Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of more than one million.

He rose to power as leader of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist regime, which took control of the country in During its reign, which ended in , Pol Pot oversaw the deaths of an estimated one to two million people from starvation, overwork or execution.

The mass graves he commanded his people to dig were often referred to as "the killing fields." Pol Pot was arrested in and died under house arrest on April 15,

Early Life and Education

Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, , in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia.

He was the eighth of nine children born to relatively prosperous parents who owned