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
judging
It's up to history to judge.
bourgeois dead good
The only good bourgeois is a dead bourgeois.
imagination sick victim
The sick are victims of their own imagination.
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.
hungry ifs
If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.
land wish pieces
If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.
weed loss gains
No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.
roots grass remove
To kill the grass you must also remove the root
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.
voice america firsts
The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.
wanted vietnamese cambodia
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
stress wish want
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
regret struggle hands
Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.
country evil want
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.