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- Birth nameSaloth Sar
- Nickname
- Brother Number One
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and a Khmer nationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 until 1997 and served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. Under his administration, Cambodia was converted into a one-party communist state and perpetrated the Cambodian genocide.
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- SpousesMea Son(1986 - April 15, 1998) (his death, 1 child)Khieu Ponnary(July 14, 1956 - 1979) (divorced)
- Leader of the Marxist Khmer Rouge movement. Between 1975 and 1979 Pot was prime minister of Cambodia, responsible for the infamous "killing fields" in which between 1 and 3 million Cambodians died.
- Coined the term "Year Zero".
- Founded the Khmer Rouge in 1963.
- He was considered a poor student in school, graduating two years later than was standard for the time, and was described as being talented but lacking in motivation and work ethic.
- He played football as a child and teen and was on his school's basketball team.
- I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
- I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.
- When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
- I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
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