Pol Pot

Pol Pot - 1978

Saloth Sar (better known as Pol Pot) (January 25, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was the leader of Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. His government was called the Khmer Rouge, a group of peasant revolutionaries who turned Cambodia into a military dictatorship officially called Democratic Kampuchea. Between 1.7 and 2.5 million Cambodians were killed by his regime (a regime is a government based on a certain world view). Pol Pot was thrown out of power in January, 1979, when the Vietnamese Communists liberated Kampuchea.