Profile: Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
Positions that Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) has held:
- Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) was a participant or observer in the following events:
1975-1978: Cambodia Collapses under Khmer Rouge Regime
The Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot evacuates the capital, sending its urban population into the countryside to work in agriculture. The regime destroys vehicles and machinery because of their Western origins and systematically kills between half a million and two million Cambodians, targeting mostly the wealthy and educated. Pol Pot also abolishes currency and the postal system. [Cambodia: A Country Study (Washington, DC: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1990).
