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Pol Pot

(pŏl pŏt′) 1928-1998.

Cambodian political leader whose Khmer Rouge movement overthrew the Cambodian government in 1975. Under his regime executions and famine killed an estimated three million people. He fled the capital in 1979 when Vietnamese forces overthrew his government.

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Pol Pot

(ˈpɒl ˈpɒt)

(Biography) original name Kompong Thom. 1925–98, Cambodian Communist statesman; prime minister of Kampuchea (1976; 1977–79); his policies led to the deaths of thousands in labour camps before he was overthrown by Vietnamese forces; in 1997 his former supporters in the Khmer Rouge captured him and claimed to have tried and sentenced him to life imprisonment

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Pol Pot

(ˈpɒl ˈpɒt)
n.

("Saloth Sar"), 1926–98, Cambodian guerilla leader: prime minister of Cambodia 1976–79.

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The [first] image you are seeing is a partial view of Phnom Penh that was destroyed and abandoned by the 1975-1979 Pol Pot genocidal regime.

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The Khmer Rouge was led by its party secretary, Pol Pot. In April of 1975, Pol Pot's forces took control of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, and the Khmer Rouge regime officially began.

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The reign of terror led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions but Friday's ruling was the first to acknowledge a genocide.

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"Let's remember the communist Kmer Rouge when dictator Pol Pot purged millions of all professionals and intellectuals in Cambodia and installed its workers and peasants in its communist regime," he said.

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'If you are associated with a person who does not believe in God; does not have a religion, if they will prevail, look at what happened to Cambodia, genocide,' he said, referring to the Pol Pot regime.

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Summary: Today in History: January 6, 1998: Pol Pot under house arrest in Combodia

January 6, 1998: Pol Pot under house arrest in Combodia

"Even the place where Pol Pot's dead body is located, the place where Pol Pot was sentenced, grass covers almost all of it.

ANLONG VENG'S LEGACY IS DISAPPEARING

But to compare the Conservative Government with the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia is below his usual high standards (Telegraph, June 4).

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EVENTS Pol Pot | 1945: British troops enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant.