Pol Pot - Revision history

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	{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr (សាឡុត ស)\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=Khmer}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr (សាឡុត ស)\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=Khmer}}

	'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. ~~Although he was a member~~ of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]]~~, he~~ was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and ~~admitted he~~ was not a [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>		'''Pol Pot''' (born '''Saloth Sâr'''; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. He served as general secretary of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] from 1963 to 1981 and as general secretary of the [[Party of Democratic Kampuchea]] from 1981 to 1985. Pol Pot was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and despite claims to contrary was not a [[Communism\|communist]] and his allies openly admitted that his party was not communist.<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
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	== References ==		== References ==
			[[Category:1925 births]]
			[[Category:1998 deaths]]
	[[Category:CIA plants]]		[[Category:CIA plants]]
			[[Category:Communist Party of Kampuchea politicians]]
			[[Category:Dictators]]
	[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]		[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]
	~~[[Category:Dictators]]~~
	<references />		<references />
			[[Category:Prime ministers of Cambodia]]

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	{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=Khmer}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr (សាឡុត ស)\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=Khmer}}

	'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. Although he was a member of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]], he was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and admitted he was not a [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>		'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. Although he was a member of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]], he was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and admitted he was not a [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>

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	== Cambodian Genocide ==		== Cambodian Genocide ==
	In 1977, purges began against ethnic Vietnamese and pro-Vietnamese Cambodians. The communist faction of the CPK began a revolt in 1978, which was crushed. In January 1979, Pol Pot was overthrown in after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and established the [[People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989)\|People's Republic of Kampuchea]].<ref name=":1" />		In 1977, purges began against ethnic Vietnamese and pro-Vietnamese Cambodians. The communist faction of the CPK began a revolt in 1978, which was crushed. In January 1979, Pol Pot was overthrown after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and established the [[People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989)\|People's Republic of Kampuchea]].<ref name=":1" />

	== U.S. support ==		== U.S. support ==
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	== See also ==		== See also ==

	* [[Ba Chuc Massacre]]		*[[Ba Chuc Massacre]]

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	[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]		[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]
	[[Category:Dictators]]		[[Category:Dictators]]
			<references />

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	== U.S. support ==		== U.S. support ==
	After he was overthrown, the United States continued to recognize Pol Pot as the legitimate leader of Cambodia at the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{News citation\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|title=Reagan Is Urged to End U.N. Support of Pol Pot\|date=1981-12-10\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509215856/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html\|archive-date=2022-05-09\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref> Between 1980 and 1986, Pol Pot's exiled forces received $85 million in funding from the United States and their operations were run by 50 [[CIA]] agents in Thailand. U.S. national security advisor [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] also encouraged [[China]] to support Pol Pot. In August 1990, a former member of the U.S. special forces disclosed that he had been ordered to destroy documents showing that the U.S. was supplying Pol Pot with munitions from Thailand.<ref name=":0" />		After he was overthrown, the United States continued to recognize Pol Pot as the legitimate leader of Cambodia at the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{News citation\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|title=Reagan Is Urged to End U.N. Support of Pol Pot\|date=1981-12-10\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509215856/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html\|archive-date=2022-05-09\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref> Between 1980 and 1986, Pol Pot's exiled forces received $85 million in funding from the United States and their operations were run by 50 [[CIA]] agents in Thailand. U.S. national security advisor [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] also encouraged [[China]] to support Pol Pot. In August 1990, a former member of the U.S. special forces disclosed that he had been ordered to destroy documents showing that the U.S. was supplying Pol Pot with munitions from Thailand.<ref name=":0" />

			== See also ==

			* [[Ba Chuc Massacre]]

	== References ==		== References ==

98.244.71.125: Changed nationality from Cambodian to Khmer because the concept of a specifically Khmer nation was important to the writings of the CPK. Cambodia was to them a state imposed by the French, while the Khmer nation was an actual nation.

2025-12-07T03:23:11Z

Changed nationality from Cambodian to Khmer because the concept of a specifically Khmer nation was important to the writings of the CPK. Cambodia was to them a state imposed by the French, while the Khmer nation was an actual nation.

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	{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=~~Cambodian~~}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Pol Pot\|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត\|image=Pol Pot.png\|birth_name=Saloth Sâr\|birth_date=19 May 1925\|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]\|death_date=15 April 1998\|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia\|Cambodia]]\|death_cause=Heart failure\|nationality=Khmer}}

	'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. Although he was a member of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]], he was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and admitted he was not a [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>		'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)\|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. Although he was a member of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]], he was supported by the [[United States of America\|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=John Pilger\|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot\|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and admitted he was not a [[Communism\|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation\|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio\|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist\|date=1986-02-19\|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html\|archive-date=2022-01-16\|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>

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	[[Category:CIA plants]]		[[Category:CIA plants]]
			[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]
			[[Category:Dictators]]

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{{Infobox person|name=Pol Pot|native_name=ប៉ុល ពត|image=Pol Pot.png|birth_name=Saloth Sâr|birth_date=19 May 1925|birth_place=Prek Sbauv, Cambodia, [[French Indochina]]|death_date=15 April 1998|death_place=Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey, [[Kingdom of Cambodia|Cambodia]]|death_cause=Heart failure|nationality=Cambodian}}

'''Pol Pot''' was the leader of [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)|Cambodia]] from 1975 to 1979. Although he was a member of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]], he was supported by the [[United States of America|United States]]<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=John Pilger|title=The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot|pdf=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/pilgerpolpotnus.pdf}}</ref> and admitted he was not a [[Communism|communist]].<ref name=":1">{{News citation|newspaper=Challenge-Desafio|title=Pol Pot Was Not and Is Not A Communist|date=1986-02-19|url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116094937/https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html|archive-date=2022-01-16|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sâr, was educated in [[French Republic|France]] and returned to Cambodia in the 1950s. The Communist Party of Kampuchea was founded in 1960 by Khmer nationalists and former members of [[Indochinese Communist Party]]. After the party was repressed by Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk|Sihanouk]], most of the communists fled to [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)|North Vietnam]] and only Pol Pot's nationalist group remained.

Pol Pot participated in a peasant rebellion in 1967 near the border with [[Kingdom of Thailand|Thailand]]. He adopted a line that everyone in the cities, including teachers and [[Proletariat|workers]], were the enemies of the people. He also hated [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnamese]] people, a belief normally associated with the Cambodian elite. In 1970, [[Lon Nol]], backed by the U.S., overthrew Sihanouk and took power.<ref name=":1" />

== Rise to power ==
In April 1975, the Communist Party of Kampuchea took power. It included two enemy factions, the pro-Vietnamese communists and anti-Vietnamese nationalists. The nationalists were more influential in the west and included Pol Pot. Pol Pot was suspicious of the communists and his supporters even killed some of them.

After the CPK took power, people were evacuated from the cities, which ran out of feed because food imports from the U.S. ended after Lon Nol was overthrown.<ref name=":1" />

== Cambodian Genocide ==
In 1977, purges began against ethnic Vietnamese and pro-Vietnamese Cambodians. The communist faction of the CPK began a revolt in 1978, which was crushed. In January 1979, Pol Pot was overthrown in after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and established the [[People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989)|People's Republic of Kampuchea]].<ref name=":1" />

== U.S. support ==
After he was overthrown, the United States continued to recognize Pol Pot as the legitimate leader of Cambodia at the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=Reagan Is Urged to End U.N. Support of Pol Pot|date=1981-12-10|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509215856/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2022-06-05}}</ref> Between 1980 and 1986, Pol Pot's exiled forces received $85 million in funding from the United States and their operations were run by 50 [[CIA]] agents in Thailand. U.S. national security advisor [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] also encouraged [[China]] to support Pol Pot. In August 1990, a former member of the U.S. special forces disclosed that he had been ordered to destroy documents showing that the U.S. was supplying Pol Pot with munitions from Thailand.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==