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  • Pol Pot

  • The Murderous Leader of the Khmer Rouge Regime
  • By: Kelly Mass
  • Narrated by: Chris Newman
  • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Pol Pot

By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
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He sure had a funny name. And what’s so strange is that during most of the biggest events in Cambodia, he wasn’t really there. It seems like he was some big orchestrator hiding behind the curtains and silently directing officers to make it all happen. The Cambodian genocide that killed an estimated two million of their own citizens has been partially attributed to this maniac.

Pol Pot was a Cambodian political leader and revolutionary who worked as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 till 1979. He was a key member of Cambodia's communist party, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 to 1997, and acted as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. He was a Marxist-Leninist and a Khmer nationalist. Cambodia was changed into a one-party communist state under his management, and the Cambodian genocide happened.

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Pol pot was a mass murderer who doesn’t get mentioned often in western HS and college history courses. His díctatorship is responsible for the deaths of 25% of the entire Cambodia population over a period of 4 years. Yet his crimes against humanity isn’t well known to the average western layman. So it was good to hear this.

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Encyclopedic bottom line facts

Reading was terrible. I was hoping for a more detailed story of Pol Pot like the story I read about Mao. But still good historical info that has not been taught in school along with every other Socialist/Communist regime.

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