Pol Pot[a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979. He oversaw mass atrocities and is widely believed …

Jan 25, 2025 · Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia responsible for the deaths of more than one million Cambodians. His radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities and left a legacy of brutality and impoverishment.

Nov 9, 2009 · Pol Pot was a political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution,...

Apr 2, 2014 · 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 between 1975 and 1979.

Nov 16, 2018 · Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home. But less than a year later he was dead - denying the millions...

Cambodian genocide, systematic murder of up to three million people in Cambodia from 1976 to 1978 that was carried out by the Khmer Rouge government under Pol Pot. Immediately after World War II, the Americans and the French fought wars against communism in Korea and Vietnam, respectively.

Apr 15, 1998 · Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of over one million Cambodians—nearly 20 percent of the country's total population. Although opposition to Pol Pot was growing among party members, his visits to China and North Korea in September and October 1977 increased his standing among other Asian Communist leaders, even as fighting with ...

Pol Pot (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge" and became the dictator of Cambodia after the fall of the Lon Nol regime in 1975.

Apr 14, 2000 · In 1963, fearing persecution from Prince Norodom Sihanouk's secret police, Pol Pot and several of his trusted right-hand men fled into the bush. Based in remote northeastern Cambodia, he...

Jun 8, 2018 · When the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government in April 1975, Pol Pot and his followers went on a murderous rampage that led to the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodian citizens. Their reign of terror ended only after Vietnamese forces successfully invaded Cambodia in 1979.