Pol Pot
Leader of the Khmer Rouge
19251998Cambodia
Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge and was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
🏛️POLITICIANS
Power: 8
Statesmen who changed the course of history
The ghost of Year Zero, who sought to turn Cambodia into a primitive agrarian utopia by destroying the very concept of the city, the individual, and the intellectual. He represents the "Perversion of Ideology"—the horrific realization of what happens when a leader loves a theory more than he loves human beings. He is the silence of the killing fields, a grim reminder that the road to a supposed paradise can be paved with the skulls of the innocent.
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