May 19, 1925 Kampong Thom Province, French Indochina
Died
April 15, 1998 Anlong Veng, Kingdom of Cambodia
Cause
Natural
Aged
72 years
Pol Pot additionally referred to as Brother No. 1 and also Comrade Pol, was a Cambodian communist politician. He led the revolutionary communist movement referred to as the Khmer Rouge from 1963 to 1997. Pol Pot was the de facto head of state in Cambodia, which was called Democratic Kampuchea during his regulation, from mid-1975. He was additionally head of state of Democratic Kampuchea 1976-1979.
He initiated an extreme collectivization process, where huge parts of the population was eliminated to the countryside to deal with cumulative ranches and also forced labor camps. This policy of the regime existed as a brand-new start in civilization called "year no" as well as needs to be based upon the traditional farming neighborhood. Several million people were eliminated in the following genocide, whose function was to destroy the enemies of the change. Particularly, townspeople, buddhististiske monks, Western-educated intellectuals, resources owners, the handicapped as well as ethnic minorities gotten rid of.
Racism was a major inspiration for the genocide. Many were eliminated in the supposed killing areas, and also frequently they were hurt to fatality with very primitive means, while others passed away of illness, compelled labor and also malnourishment. Price quotes of the variety of fatalities in the duration 1975-1979 varies between 1.5 and 2.3 countless a populace of 8.7 million, with 2 million sufferers as one of the most well established quote.
As an outcome of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War were Democratic Kampuchea attacked Vietnam in 1979, and also Pol Pot was deposed. After that taken off Pol Pot as well as his fans into the forest in the north-western component of Cambodia. Pol Pot was never held answerable for their activities, however was deposed as well as put behind bars after an interior power struggle in the remains of the Khmer Rouge in 1997. He died of all-natural reasons in 1998 while he was held under house arrest.
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