...Why, he said, Bush liberated whole countries and got rid of Saddam Hussein, someone Wehmer compared to Cambodian dictator Pol Pot. Now, not to defend Hussein, but to accept such a comparison would be to ignore history - - the Viet Nam experience and U.S....
...by nature to rule over and control other lesser developed human “races” found lower on the tree of life. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot among others held this view and acted on it to the detriment of millions of innocent lives. Beliefs are a most powerful...
...pieces of sodden clothing trousers, skirts, shirts worn by Cambodians who were killed and buried there during the murderous Pol Pot regime between 1975 and 1979. This sodden field was the first place 17 Australian teenagers visited when they arrived in...
...and Laos, while its ideology was shaped in part by the French university educations of several of its leaders, including Pol Pot. It came to power by toppling a pro-American Cambodian government in 1975 after a bitter five-year civil war. Within days of...
...include grasshoppers, frogs & spiders for food. PP was forcibly abandoned during the Khmer Rouge rule lead by Pol Pot from 1975 -79 (more of this dark period in the country’s history later). The country actually got it’s independence in 1953 from the...
Background
Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), also known as Pol Pot, was the leader of the right "communist" movement known as the Khmer Rouge (which roughly means "Red Khmer Tribe", based on the proponents of Rouge, the French for red, and Khmer, which is the name of a tribe of ancient Cambodia). He was the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially renamed Democratic Kampuchea under his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization whereby city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects with the goal of restarting civilization in "Year Zero". The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions had an estimated death toll of 750,000 to 1.7 million (approximately 26% of the population at that time). Pol Pot will most inevitably go down as one of the most evil people in history, some even argue that his crimes against humanity are comparable to those of the German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. This is largely influenced by the fact that all the killings took place in his relatively short (3-year) totalitarian reign.
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