Pol pot

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Pol Pot

Introduction:

Saloth Sar also known as Pol Pot, was leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge”. He was the Prime Minister of Cambodia (renamed Democratic Kampuchea) from 1976 to 1979.During his time in power, the Khmer Rouge forced urban to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The goal was to restart civilization in "Year Zero". The combined effects of slave labour, poor medical care and executions had an estimated death toll of between 750,000 and 1.7 million people. In 1979, he fled into the jungles of southwest Cambodia after an invasion by neighbouring Vietnam, which led to the collapse of the Khmer Rouge government. In 1979, Pol Pot was overthrown and imprisoned by other Khmer Rouge leaders. He died in 1998 while held under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge. Since his death, rumours that he was poisoned have persisted.

I. Biography

A) His early life (1925-1961)

Saloth Sar was born in Prek Sbauv in Kampong Thom Province the 19th of May in 1925 to a moderately wealthy family. In 1935, he left Prek Sbauv to attend a Catholic school in Phnom Penh. In 1947, he gained admission to the exclusive Lycée Sisowath but was unsuccessful in his studies. After switching to a technical school at Russey Keo, in the north of Phnom Penh, he qualified for a scholarship that allowed for technical study in France. He studied in Paris from 1949 to 1953. In 1951, he joined a communist cell in a secret organization known as the Cercle Marxiste. A few months later, Saloth also joined the PCF (the French communist party).
As a result of failing his exams in three successive years, he was forced to return to Cambodia in January 1954. He was the first member of the group to return to Cambodia and was given the task of evaluating the various groups rebelling against the government. He recommended the Khmer Viet Minh, and in August 1954, Saloth travelled to the Viet Minh Eastern

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