Pol Pot biography

Pol Pot Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998), conceived Saloth Sar (Khmer: សាឡុត ស)
, was a Cambodian progressive who drove the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. All things considered, he turned into the pioneer of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, when his strengths caught Phnom Penh. From 1976 to 1979, he likewise served as the head administrator of Democratic Kampuchea.

He directed a totalitarian fascism, in which his legislature made urban occupants move to the farmland to work in aggregate ranches and on constrained work ventures. The joined impacts of executions, strenuous working conditions, ailing health and poor medicinal care brought on the passings of roughly 25 percent of the Cambodian populace. On the whole, an expected 1 to 3 million individuals (out of a populace of marginally more than 8 million) kicked the bucket because of the arrangements of his four-year prevalence.

In 1979, after the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Pol Pot migrated to the wildernesses of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government broken down. From 1979 to 1997, he and a leftover of the old Khmer Rouge worked close to the fringe of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to control, with ostensible United Nations acknowledgment as the legitimate legislature of Cambodia. Pol Pot kicked the bucket in 1998, while under house capture by the Ta Mok group of the Khmer Rouge. Since his passing, gossipy tidbits that he conferred suicide or was harmed have held on.