Pol Pot Research Paper
Pol Pot- Dictator of Cambodia
Pol Pot was a Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976-1979. Pol pot or Saloth Sar, was born in 1925 in a small village north of the cambodian capital called Prek sbauv. His family owned 50 acres of rice. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh, where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic primary school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949, when he went to Paris on a scholarship. While there, he studied radio technology and became active in communist circles ( "Pol Pot”). He single handedly planned to destroy the civilization of Cambiado and raise it to become a whole new age. In only a short time of his rule, he turned the country into a inhumane killing field. No one was safe. He killed …show more content…
In the villages, unsupervised gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden. Young people were taken from their parents and placed in communals. They were later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of often-unwilling couples ( The History Place).” The people of cambodia were deprived of food and were unable to carry out most of the brutal chores. If anyone was caught eating even a dead human body out of starvation they were buried alive. Pol pot went as far as to killing his own soldiers. and would kill anyone who spoke or even slightly look vietnamese. Married couples that were cambodian and vietnamese were instantly killed. He had a habit of taking pictures of those he tortured and killed. He also kept the skulls of those he killed. He viewed their lives as they were nothing. His sole rule was responsible of the death of 25-33% equivalent of about 1.5 million people of the country's population . Pol Pot retreated into Thailand with some of his Khmer army and had begun a guerilla warfare for the next 17 years. After some power struggles in the 1900’s, Pol pot had finally lost control and in April 1998 Pol Pot died of a heart attack after her arrest. He died
Pol Pot was a Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976-1979. Pol pot or Saloth Sar, was born in 1925 in a small village north of the cambodian capital called Prek sbauv. His family owned 50 acres of rice. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh, where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic primary school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949, when he went to Paris on a scholarship. While there, he studied radio technology and became active in communist circles ( "Pol Pot”). He single handedly planned to destroy the civilization of Cambiado and raise it to become a whole new age. In only a short time of his rule, he turned the country into a inhumane killing field. No one was safe. He killed …show more content…
In the villages, unsupervised gatherings of more than two persons were forbidden. Young people were taken from their parents and placed in communals. They were later married in collective ceremonies involving hundreds of often-unwilling couples ( The History Place).” The people of cambodia were deprived of food and were unable to carry out most of the brutal chores. If anyone was caught eating even a dead human body out of starvation they were buried alive. Pol pot went as far as to killing his own soldiers. and would kill anyone who spoke or even slightly look vietnamese. Married couples that were cambodian and vietnamese were instantly killed. He had a habit of taking pictures of those he tortured and killed. He also kept the skulls of those he killed. He viewed their lives as they were nothing. His sole rule was responsible of the death of 25-33% equivalent of about 1.5 million people of the country's population . Pol Pot retreated into Thailand with some of his Khmer army and had begun a guerilla warfare for the next 17 years. After some power struggles in the 1900’s, Pol pot had finally lost control and in April 1998 Pol Pot died of a heart attack after her arrest. He died