General pol pot biography timeline
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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 1975 and 1979.
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Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1925, in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia.
General pol pot biography timeline
He rose to power as leader of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist regime, which took control of the country in 1975. During its reign, which ended in 1979, 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 1997 and died under house arrest on April 15, 1998.
Early Life and Education
Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1925, in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia.
He was the eighth of nine children born to