- Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997
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Pol Pot facts
- From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
- As such, he became the leader of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, when his forces captured Phnom Penh
- From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea
- He presided over a totalitarian dictatorship, in which his government made urban dwellers move to the countryside to work in collective farms and on forced labour projects
- The combined effects of executions, strenuous working conditions, malnutrition and poor medical care caused the deaths of approximately 25 percent of the Cambodian population
- In all, an estimated 1 to 3 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died due to the policies of his four-year premiership
- In 1979, after the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Pol Pot relocated to the jungles of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed
- From 1979 to 1997, he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated near the border of Cambodia and Thailand
- Until 1993, they clung to power as part of a coalition government that was internationally recognized as the rightful government of Cambodia
- Pol Pot died in 1998, while under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge
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