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Pol Pot

Cambodian revolutionary and dictator who led the Khmer Rouge and oversaw the Cambodian genocide.

Pol Pot was born Saloth Sâr in the village of Prek Sbauv, outside Kampong Thom, with French records listing his birth as 25 May 1928 but biographer Philip Short arguing for March 1925.[1] He adopted the name "Pol" in 1970, later lengthening it to "Pol Pot".[2]

Quick Facts

Office
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Deputy
Nuon Chea
Took office
22 February 1963
Left office
6 December 1981
Predecessor
Tou Samouth (1962)
Successor
Position abolished (party dissolved)

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Sâr was the eighth of nine children in a mixed Chinese-Khmer family that owned 9 ha of rice land and several draft cattle.[3][4] At age six, he was sent to live with his cousin Meak, a consort of King Sisowath Monivong, in Phnom Penh.[5] He attended a Roman Catholic primary school, the École Miche, and later the Collége Pream Sihanouk, where he played football and basketball.[6][5][7] In Paris, he joined the Cercle Marxiste and the French Communist Party, reading works by Stalin, Mao, and Kropotkin.[8][9][10]

He returned to Cambodia on 13 January 1953, and later gained employment teaching history, geography, French literature, and morals at a private school, the Chamraon Vichea, in Phnom Penh.[10][5] On 14 July 1956, he and fellow communist revolutionary Khieu Ponnary were married in a Buddhist ceremony.[2]

What the cited sources add

A 1952 article by Saloth Sâr, published under the pseudonym "Khmer Deum" in the student magazine Khmer Nisut, argued that Buddhist monks were an anti-monarchist force on the side of the peasantry.[11][12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Jones, "In the Land of the Khmer Rouge", New York Times, 20 December 1981 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chandler 1992, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Chandler 1992, p. 7; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chandler 1992, p. 7; Short 2004, p. 18; Chandler 1992, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; They became Communists when it was the popular thing to do—during the early 1950s under the unstable Fourth Republic in France when a Communist-controlled resis; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "Pol Pot (1952): Monarchy or Democracy", Marxists.org. facts only, no text reused. marxists.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Pol Pot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Short 2004, p. 18; "Pol Pot (1952): Monarchy or Democracy", Marxists.org; Short 2004, p. 18; Short 2004, p. 18 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Pol Pot (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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