Pol Pot(1925-1998)

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Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and a Khmer nationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 until 1997 and served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. Under his administration, Cambodia was converted into a one-party communist state and perpetrated the Cambodian genocide.

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Pol Pots leende

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1979

Official sites
- Britannica
- Encyclopedia
Height
- 1.75 m
Born
- May 19, 1925
- Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum Province, Cambodia
Died
- April 15, 1998
- Along Veng, Cambodia(natural causes)
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- 3 Biographical Movies
- 1 Portrayal

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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.