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    may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Khmer script. Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist...
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    call the Khmer Rouge the Pol Pot-Ieng Sary group (Vietnamese: Tập đoàn Pol Pot-Ieng Sary) or they call the Khmer Rouge the Pol Pot-Ieng Sary reactionary...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Khmer Communist Party, was a 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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  • Reign of Terror: 1979–2003 Pol Pot Team: Jonathan Khan (Pol Pot Weapons Expert), Kilong Ung (Cambodian Genocide Survivor) Pol Pot Weapons: Cane Knife, Tokarev...
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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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    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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    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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  • the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge. She was the sister-in-law of Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge. Chea Samy was born in 1919 in Kampong Cham...
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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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    Buddhist monks were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Pot has been described as "a genocidal tyrant". Martin Shaw described the Cambodian...
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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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  • 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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  • Khmer Rouge, until he refused to apply the Cambodian genocide designed by Pol Pot and his comrades causing his death in June 1978. So Phim was born in 1925...
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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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  • was murdered under mysterious circumstances a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia. Malcolm Caldwell was born in Stirling, Scotland, the son of...
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    landowner or civil servant families. Pol Pot and Hou Yuon may have been related to the royal family. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Pol Pot and Sihanouk were actually in Beijing at the same time, but the Vietnamese and Chinese leaders never informed Sihanouk of the presence of Pol...
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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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  • 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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    victims of the Pol Pot revolution, and from the Vietnamese." In 2012, Holocaust denier Israel Shamir wrote an article titled "Pol Pot Revisited" for CounterPunch...
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    an anti-government coalition led by the Khmer Rouge. After the fall of Pol Pot's regime, Cambodia came under Vietnamese military occupation and a pro-Hanoi...
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