How is Pol Pot viewed in modern Cambodia?

Pol Pot was a patriot who practically wanted to use his ideology to create the best society. Many Khmer rouge militants remaining in Cambodia respect Pol Pot very much until now. The root cause of his ideology was poverty and the gap between the rich and the poor. read more

Pol Pot was a patriot who practically wanted to use his ideology to create the best society. Many Khmer rouge militants remaining in Cambodia respect Pol Pot very much until now. read more

On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot led the Communist forces of the Khmer Rouge into the capital city of Phnom Penh, beginning a vicious four-year regime in Cambodia. read more

As head of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot oversaw an unprecedented and extremely brutal attempt to remove Cambodia from the modern world and establish an agrarian utopia. While attempting to create this utopia, Pol Pot created the Cambodian Genocide, which lasted from 1975 to 1979 and caused the deaths of at least 1.5 million Cambodians out of a population of approximately 8 million. read more