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Pol pot documentary full biography

          This gripping documentary delves into the early life of Saloth Sar, a boy with a passion for the violin, who would later become Pol Pot.

          Pol Pot is a minute A&E biographical profile of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, one of the most brutal murderers of the 20th century....

          Cambodian head of state Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of more than one million people through execution, starvation or overwork between 1975 and 1979.



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          Synopsis

          Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1925, in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia.

          He rose to power as leader of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist regime, which took control of the country in 1975.

          Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from until his overthrow in

        1. Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from until his overthrow in
        2. The Cambodian Genocide was an explosion of mass violence that saw between and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist.
        3. Pol Pot is a minute A&E biographical profile of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, one of the most brutal murderers of the 20th century.
        4. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge's totalitarian regime (–79) in Cambodia responsible for the deaths of more than one million.
        5. Philip Short, the biographer of Mao, has spent four years travelling the length of Cambodia, interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge movement.

          6. During its reign, which ended in 1979, Pol Pot oversaw the deaths of an estimated one to two million people from starvation, overwork or execution. The mass graves he commanded his people to dig were often referred to as "the killing fields." Pol Pot was arrested in 1997 and died under house arrest on April 15, 1998.



          Early Life and Education

          Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1925, in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia. He was the eighth of nine children born to