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    may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Khmer script. Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 25 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist...
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    Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique (Vietnamese: Tập đoàn Pol Pot-Ieng Sary) or the Pol Pot-Ieng Sary reactionary clique (Vietnamese: Tập đoàn phản động Pol Pot-Ieng...
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  • Meeting with Pol Pot (French: Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot) is a 2024 drama film co-written and directed by Rithy Panh. Starring Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin...
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    Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, under the totalitarian dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer...
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  • areas of military conflict. He is most notable for having interviewed Pol Pot, in his capacity as Cambodia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic...
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    Cambodian genocide (category Pol Pot)
    Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c. 7.8 million). Pol Pot...
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  • actually reached the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge, the communist party led by Pol Pot, came to power in 1975 during the Cambodian Civil War, which was linked...
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    Communist Party, was a far-left communist party in Cambodia. Its leader was Pol Pot, and its members were generally known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer). Originally...
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    information. Along with the rest of his family, he was killed on the orders of Pol Pot during a 1997 factional split in the Khmer Rouge. Son Sen was born in the...
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    Two" (Khmer: បងធំទី២), as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979...
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    one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, although Pol Pot remained the General Secretary (highest official) in the party. Prior to...
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  • War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war began with...
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  • regime, and included her interviewing Pol Pot. It was loosely adapted into the 2024 Rithy Panh film Meeting with Pol Pot. "An American Journalist's Tour of...
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    member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea led by Pol Pot and served in the 1975–79 government of Democratic Kampuchea as foreign...
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  • Khmer Rouge, until he refused to apply the Cambodian genocide designed by Pol Pot and his comrades, a refusal that led to his own suicide in June 1978. So...
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    Cambodia from remote areas until their defeat in 1999. After the fall of Pol Pot's regime, Cambodia came under Vietnamese military occupation and a pro-Hanoi...
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    Dictator (redirect from Tin-pot dictator)
    million were Jews. Later on in Democratic Kampuchea, General Secretary Pol Pot and his policies killed an estimated 1.7 million people (out of a population...
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  • football manager and player Philippe Pot (1428–1493), Burgundian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat Pol Pot (1925–1998), leader of the communist...
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    rule and defected from it after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot's government. Brought about by an invasion from Vietnam, which routed the...
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  • people so named Pol Pot (1925–1998), Cambodian revolutionary and Communist dictator Agusti Pol (born 1977), Andorran footballer Alejandro Pol Hurtado (born...
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  • remembered for mentoring Saloth Sar, who would later change his name to Pol Pot. Samouth was a Khmer Krom who was born and raised in Cochinchina (in the...
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  • the forest and took Pol Pot with him. A few days later, on 15 April 1998, Pol Pot died in custody. On 25 July 1997, Ta Mok and Pol Pot were interviewed separately...
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  • Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare p. 197. ""Prince Sihanouk was deposed in a right-wing coup in 1970 led by Lt-Gen Lon Nol"". Philip Short, Pol Pot: Anatomy...
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    Short, Philip (2004) Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, Henry Holt & Co.: New York, p. 204, ISBN 0805080066. Short, Philip (2004) Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare...
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  • Soviet Union, Mao Zedong's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia on the basis that Stalin influenced Mao, who influenced Pol Pot; in all cases, scholars say killings...
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    Vietnam to preserve its relationship with Cambodia. The following month, Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and Ieng Sary travelled secretly to Hanoi in May, where they...
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    was "espionage", these men may have been viewed by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot as potential leaders of a coup against him. Prisoners' families were sometimes...
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  • supporter of the Khmer Rouge. Caldwell was murdered a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia, though who was responsible for the murder remains debated...
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    which would result in the overthrow of both the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot. Communists in Vietnam and Cambodia allied to fight the U.S.-backed government...
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    Buddhist monks were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Pot has been described as "a genocidal tyrant". Sociologist Martin Shaw described...
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