Pol Pot
Pol Pot
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. As such, he became the leader of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, when his forces captured Phnom Penh. From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 May 1925
CityPrek Sbauv, Cambodia
mistake enemy innocent
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.
mistake responsibility enemy
I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.
pot grass grows
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
mistake struggle people
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and also by the enemy — but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.
sick remains one-thing
In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.
savages looks look-at-me
Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
wanted vietnamese cambodia
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
hungry ifs
If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.
judging
It's up to history to judge.
imagination sick victim
The sick are victims of their own imagination.
bourgeois dead good
The only good bourgeois is a dead bourgeois.