Pol Pot Quotes


I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.


Citations

Thayer, Nate. "Day of Reckoning." Far Eastern Economic Review, 30 Oct. 1997.

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Pol Pot
Pol Pot
  • Born: May 19, 1925
  • Died: April 15, 1998
  • Nationality: Cambodian
  • Profession: Revolutionary, Dictator

Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who governed Cambodia as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and a Khmer nationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 until 1997 and served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. Under his administration, Cambodia was converted into a one-party communist state governed according to Pol Pot's interpretation of Marxism–Leninism.