“I clearly understand that any theory or ideology which mentions love for the people in a class-based concept is definitely driving us into endless tragedy and misery.”
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Pol Pot
Pol Pot was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 until his overthrow in 1979 during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Ideologically a Maoist and Khmer ethnonationalist, Pot led Cambodia's Communist movement, known as the Khmer Rouge, which seized power in 1975 and established a one-party state under the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Over the next…
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politics · Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998) · politician · military officer · also Pol Pot, Saloth Sar, Brother Number One, Pot
Born 19 May 1925 · Died 15 April 1998 · Q39464
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2026· 5 entries
“an astonishing tribute not only to the energy, initiative and creativeness of the Korean people, but also to the essential correctness of the Juche line”
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“s responsible for the killings. He said that he knows many people died. When he said this he nearly broke down and cried. He said he must accept responsibility because the line was too far to the left, and because he didn”
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“agriculture is key both to nation-building and to national defence”
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The Australian: Gender review watchdog member compared Trump to Pol Pot
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2025· 1 entry
Digital Journal: A coffin for Pol Pot’s memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh’s fall
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2024· 5 entries
FirstShowing.net: Official US Trailer for Rithy Panh's 'Meeting with Pol Pot' Set in 1978
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IndieWire: ‘Meeting with Pol Pot’ Trailer: French Journalists Meet the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia’s 2024 Oscar Submission
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Yahoo: ‘Meeting With Pol Pot’ Is a Lesson in Genocide
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Deadline.com: ‘Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot’ Review: Rithy Panh’s Return To The Killing Fields Spotlights Importance Of Today’s Conflict Journalists – Cannes Film Festival
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Deadline.com: ‘Pol Pot Dancing’: Cambodia’s Dictator Tried To Wipe Out Classical Dance, But His Foster Mom Saved It – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
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2019· 1 entry
The Dutch socialist Alex de Jong characterised Pol Pot's government as a "genocidal regime" and noted that the name of the Khmer Rouge had become "synonymous with murder and repression"
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2010· 1 entry
Newsweek: Cambodian Artists Take On Pol Pot’s Regime
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2009· 1 entry
Deutsche Welle described Pol Pot's government as having initiated one of the "world's most infamous political experiments", while Short referred to the Khmer Rouge as "the most radical revolutionary movement of modern ti
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1998· 7 entries
Died 1998-04-15.
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“Opis: jeden z przydomków Pol Pota.”
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“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”
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“Our policy was to provide an affluent life for the people. There were mistakes made in carrying it out. Several thousand people may have died.”
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The Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok placed Pot under house arrest
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“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”
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“Opis: z tabliczki w języku angielskim i khmerskim postawionej przy jego miejscu pochówku wystawionej przez Ministerstwo Turystyki.”
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1997· 1 entry
Proclaimed that "when I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West
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1994· 2 entries
Relocated to Kbal Ansoang, on the crest of the Dângrêk Mountains
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Ordered the confiscation of private transport and an end to cross-border trade with Thailand
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1988· 1 entry
The anti-Vietnamese factions entered into negotiations with the Phnom Penh government
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1983· 1 entry
Pol Pot travelled to Bangkok for a medical check-up; there he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease
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1979· 1 entry
After the revelations of the killings committed at Tuol Sleng prison
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1978· 5 entries
The government initiated a second purge, during which tens of thousands of Cambodians were accused of being Vietnamese sympathisers and killed
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Pol Pot's government began trying to improve relations with various foreign countries, such as Thailand, to bolster its position against Vietnam
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“Purify the Party! Purify the army! Purify the cadres!”
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The Khmer Rouge met with delegates of the Sweden–Kampuchea Friendship Association, whose members openly sympathised with the Khmer Rouge
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It established military training camps for Cambodian refugees in southern Vietnam, forming the nucleus of a future Cambodian regime
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1977· 3 entries
With Ieng Sary stating "We are not communists
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“s own figures, by August 1977 between 4,000 and 5,000 party members had been liquidated as”
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Pol Pot claimed that he was born into a "poor, peasant family"
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1976· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Cambodia (1976–1976).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Cambodia (1976–1979).
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1975· 4 entries
Where everything before that date must be purged
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The troops defending Phnom Penh began discussing surrender, eventually doing so and allowing the Khmer Rouge to enter the city on 17 April
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Pol Pot also took Ponnary's old family home in the rue Docteur Hahn as a residence, and subsequently also took a villa in the south of the city for his own
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And established a one-party state under the Communist Party of Kampuchea
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1972· 1 entry
Pol Pot suggested that Sihanouk leave Beijing and tour the areas of Cambodia under CPK control
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1968· 1 entry
Relaunched the war against Sihanouk's government
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1963· 1 entry
Career landmark: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (1963–1981).
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1962· 1 entry
Relocated to a jungle encampment and in 1963 he became the CPK's leader
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1960· 1 entry
Sihanouk introduced a constitutional amendment allowing himself to become head of state for life
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1959· 1 entry
Helped formalise the movement into the Kampuchean Labour Party, which was later renamed the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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1953· 1 entry
Involved himself in the Khmer Viet Minh organisation and its guerrilla war against King Norodom Sihanouk's newly independent government
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1951· 1 entry
While studying at the École française de radioélectricité
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1948· 2 entries
Dissolved the National Assembly, instead ruling by decree
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To study carpentry at the Ecole Technique in Russey Keo, in Phnom Penh's northern suburbs
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1946· 1 entry
But allowed for the creation of a new constitution and the establishment of various political parties
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1945· 1 entry
Sâr and several friends from his college theatre troupe went on a provincial tour in a bus to raise money for a trip to Angkor Wat
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1941· 2 entries
The French authorities appointed Norodom Sihanouk as his replacement
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The Japanese ousted the French from Cambodia, with Sihanouk proclaiming his country's independence
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-05-19.
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