Pol Pots By Siddiq

Assalamualaikum and good day to everyone reading this post, this last entry for my assignment is about a politician called Pol Pots. Pol Pots was a one the notorious leaders I encountered when I googled it. He was rank among the infamous Joseff Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Vlad "the Impaler" Tepes and many more.

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Pol Pots was a leader in politics whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. At that time, an estimated of 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. S-21 was a detention center that is known to be so notorious that only seven of the roughly 20,000 people imprisoned there are known to have survived. The Khmer Rouge, took particular aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servant and religious leaders. Even some historians claim that Pol Pot regime as one of the most barbaric and murderous in recent history.

Pol Pots real name is Saloth sar, was born in 1925 in the small village of Prek Sbauv, located about 100 miles north of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. He moved to the capital in 1934 until 1949, he went to Paris on a scholarship. In Paris, he studied radio technology and became active in communist circles.

the fall Phnom Penh, Google

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Y'all can find a more detail about Pol Pots in the net. What I would like to share with you all is the Cambodian genocide. After the Khmer Rogue evacuated Phnom Penh's 2.5 million residents. Former civil servants, doctors, teachers and other professionals were stripped of their profession and forced to toil in the fields as part of a re-education process. For those who defy the system will be tortured in a detention center, such as S-21, and then killed. During the Cambodian genocide, the bones of millions of people who died from malnutrition, overwork or inadequate health care also filled up mass graves across the country.

Under Pol Pot, he controlled all aspects of a person's life. Money, private property, jewelry, gambling, reading materials outlawed and many more. He became the prime minister and renamed the country of Democratic Kampuchea. During his reign , borderly skirmishes were occurring regularly between the Cambodians and the Viatnamese.

In 1997 a Khmer Rouge splinter group captured Pol Pot and placed him under house arrest. He died in his sleep on April 15, 1998, at 72 due to heart failure. A United Nations-backed tribunal has convicted only a handful of Khmer Rouge leaders of crimes against humanity.




All of the pictures are from Google images.