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  • Khmer Rouge's legendary "Brother Number Three", Ieng Sary (L) and his wife Ieng Thirith
    Khmer Rouge's legendary "Brother Number Three", Ieng Sary (L) and his ...
    Source: AFP
  • Khmer Rouge's legendary "Brother Number Three", Ieng Sary (L) and his wife Ieng Thirith
    Khmer Rouge's legendary "Brother Number Three", Ieng Sary (L) and his ...
    Source: AFP
  • Duch is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of some 15,000 people
    Duch is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of some 15,...
    Source: AFP
  • A Cambodian woman looks at skulls on display at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial, near Phnom Penh
    A Cambodian woman looks at skulls on display at the Choeung Ek killing ...
    Source: AFP
Khmer Rouge's legendary "Brother Number Three", Ieng Sary (L) and his ...
Pol Pot's Biography

Saloth Sar or Minh Hai, (May 19, 1928 – April 15, 1998), widely known as Pol Pot, (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត), was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979.

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  • News Source: The Guardian | about 12 hours ago
    This weekly blog is for those who are watching The Thick of It series three. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five The Thick of It seems to be broadening its range of targets specifically so it can start insulting as many BBC colleagues as
  • News Source: Inter Press Service | 9 days ago
    Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is known for his brash and earthy vocabulary even when, as he did in early April, he talks about himself. "I am neither a gangster nor a gentleman, but a real man," the politician who has led his country for 25 years
  • News Source: Canadian Free Press | 10 days ago
    One, slightly more politic than the others wrote this: “Gallup Poll’s show that a substantial majority of the American public favors the expansion of federal hate crime legislation to include crimes against people based on their gender, sexual

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  • Blog Source: leavefreedom.blogspot.com | 9 days ago
    Until now the official school text contained a mere five lines on the Pol Pot era. Khamboly Dy has expanded that paragraph to an entire textbook for the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, an organisation which gathers evidence about ...
  • Blog Source: khmerization.blogspot.com | 9 days ago
    The subject disappeared from the curriculum in the early 1990s when Pol Pot and his followers were among the signatories to a peace agreement. A series of defections and the presence of former Khmer Rouge members in the current ...
  • Blog Source: newledger.com | 9 days ago
    They will point to Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, and other disreputable members of the anti-communist camp, as though Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin had not committed vastly more heinous and bloody crimes. They will note the economic ...

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