“I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.”

About Pol Pot

Politician • Cambodian

Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and a Khmer nationalist, he was a leading...