Pol Pot
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Saloth Sar (better known as Pol Pot) (January 25, 1925[1][2] – 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.
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- ↑ http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool1998/obits/pot.html
- ↑ http://www.chanbokeo.com/index.php?gcm=1411&grid=128165>op=5360