The Influence Of Pol Pot

Pol Pot, the infamous ruthless leader of Cambodia and Angka used fear to increase his power and control his people. Angka was a government created by Pol Pot.According to Sopheap K. Hang, no one was to question them and if they did you were to be taken to the reeducation learning institution meaning they were to be beaten and or killed. This allowed him to control the people of Cambodia because when the people were told to do something, they could not question the government. This also gave him access to an almost limitless amount of power. He could do whatever he pleased when he wanted and no one could say anything or else they would be silenced. Pol Pot and Angka have greatly impacted both the Cambodian people and its society. Ben Kiernan states the estimated hat the death toll during this time period was 1.5 million people.
He also says that “2o of the interviewees (14 of them from the non-elite group) also reported losing forty nuclear family members to starvation and disease during the Pol Pot period.” Pol Pot and his government impacted the people and their society by allowing these mass killings to take
place.