Pol Pot nació el 19 de mayo de 1925 en Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum Province, Cambodia. Estuvo casado con Mea Son y Khieu Ponnary. Murió el 15 de abril de 1998 en Along Veng, Cambodia.
Leader of the Marxist Khmer Rouge movement. Between 1975 and 1979 Pot
was prime minister of Cambodia, responsible for the infamous "killing
fields" in which between 1 and 3 million Cambodians died.