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"In April 1998, one of history's most vile mass murderers died. This was a leader who showed his people no mercy. As ruler of Cambodia, Pol Pot was responsible for killing nearly two million people - that's a quarter of the country's population. In his four-year reign, Pol Pot tortured and starved the Cambodians to death. Men, women, children, and babies were often brutally clubbed to death with hammers and buried alive. He turned Cambodia into a killing field. As the architect of a brutal social experiment driven by racial and political hatred, Pol Pot's regime left behind a tragic legacy of misery and mass graves." - Introduction to a documentary on History Channel

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sar, May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was the dictator of Cambodia (which he called Kampuchia) from 1975 to 1979, known for his large scale war crimes against his own country and its neighbors. He was an extreme Communist and probably the worst example of all time.

Villainy

After consolidating his power, Pol Pot utterly ruined his country economically and socially to the point of which it is still recovering today. Though Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong killed a lot more people than Pol Pot, he is sometimes considered worse because, in less than 4 full years, he brought about the deaths of a quarter of his country's population (approx. 2 million victims out of a population of 8 million) without a war and in a particularly gruesome manner. Pol Pot was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he was never brought to justice for his terrible crimes over the years.

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