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Pol Pot
"Better to kill an innocent by mistake than to spare an enemy by mistake."
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As the leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol rose to power in 1975 in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. The Khmer Rouge were a radical communist movement in Cambodia. Trying to establish a self-sufficient agrarian utopia, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forced millions into forced labour. The resulting famines and executions due to paranoia led to the Cambodian Genocide that killed one-fourth of Cambodia's population. Pol Pot was toppled in 1979 by Vietnamese troops and died in prison in 1998.
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Groenheijde, S. (2023). Pol Pot. EPIS Insight · Human Rights & Humanitarian Aid.
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