Pol
Pot was Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. His plan was to
destroy the civilization of Cambodia and turn it into a new age. He
turned Cambodia into a killing field. Pol Pot is the only man in history
that ordered an official genocide against his whole country and he
killed the greatest percentage in the amount of time he was in power. He
declared that the Buddhist religion, money, and personal possessions
would all be banned.
His communist government
forced mass evacuations of cities. Millions of Cambodians were
displaced, tortured and killed. People were separated from friends and
families. People died from effects of slave labor, malnutrition, poor
medical care, starvation and execution. Hundreds of thousands were
clubbed to death and buried alive. Thousands were killed from disease
and torture. Many were hanged.
Millions of
people including the elderly, pregnant women, and children would stand
in water up to their necks in cold and rainy seasons, working on canals,
with legs and feet swelling up and bleeding. If you stopped working
because of illness, you would not be feed or you would be killed. If a
worker made a mistake, he or she would be flogged to death or shot. You
would be expected to work until you dropped dead. Many people had no
rights to eat.
If people were found eating dead
humans, they would be buried alive. Pol Pot wanted teenagers to become
solders with a love of killing. If Cambodian people married people of
Vietnam, the husband and wife would be killed. People that spoke and
looked like Vietnamese were also killed. Pol Pot often ordered people to
kill and fight Vietnamese. He took pictures of the people he executed
and recorded them in detail.
Prisoners were
forced to drink humane urine. He ordered babies to be torn limb by limb.
People were beaten to death by blunt instruments like hammers, spades
and axe handles. People were also killed by sharpened bamboo sticks.
Some of his men killed people by bleeding them to death. He liked to
keep the skulls of dead people. To Pol Pot, his people’s lives were not
just cheap, but of no value at all. He killed 1 to 3 million Cambodians,
25 to 33 percent of the country. Pol Pot died in April in 1998 of
natural causes.
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