Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 ... In summer 1935, Sâr went to live with his brother Suong and the latter's wife and child. [14] That year, he began an education at a Roman Catholic primary school, the École Miche, [15] with Meak paying the tuition fees. [16]

Apr 15, 1998 · Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1928, near Anlong Veng, Cambodia, the second son of a successful landowner. Pol Pot's father had political connections at the royal court at the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, some seventy miles from Prek Sbau, the small hamlet in Kompong Thom province where Pol Pot was born.

Jan 25, 2025 · Pol Pot taught at a private school in Phnom Penh from 1956 to 1963, when he left the capital because his communist ties were suspected by the police. By 1963 he had adopted his revolutionary pseudonym, Pol Pot.

Nov 1, 2024 · His older brother, Loth Suong, described him as a sweet-natured child. However, the transformation of Pol Pot from an innocent boy to a notorious mass murderer remains a complex enigma. At the age of six, he moved to...

In the Pol Pot times children could catch an adult if they thought they had done wrong. They could beat the adult. For example, if an adult was caught stealing fruit a child could tell the soldiers: ‘look they are our enemies’.

Pol Pot was born named Saloth Sar in a small Cambodian fishing village called Prek Sbauv (pictured). As a child, Sar moved to Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh for school. He continually did poorly in school, graduating two years late.

Apr 14, 2000 · One of his brothers, Saloth Neap, once described Pol Pot as a gentle and kind child. He added he had no idea what his sibling had become until he saw a poster of "Brother Number One" - Pol...

Aug 2, 1998 · More than a million and a half Cambodians were murdered during the regime’s campaign to create a “new people.” Its leader, Pol Pot, died on April 15th, and on July 26th Cambodians were allowed...

From 1975 to 1979 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge radically pushed Cambodia towards a terrifying vision of communism, forcing all citizens to migrate to the countryside as agricultural laborers.

Nov 9, 2009 · Saloth Sar, better known by his nom de guerre Pol Pot, was born in 1925 in the small village of Prek Sbauv, located about 100 miles north of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. His family was...