Pol Pot and Cambodia

Pol Pot, his Khmer Rouge, and his regime have had a lasting impact on Cambodia. The after-effects of the ¡¥Killing Fields¡¦ of 1975-1978, in which more than a million people were killed, will most likely last well into the 21st Century, and Cambodia may well never fully recover from the wounds they sustained during the time of Pol Pot¡¦s rule.
Pol Pot was born in May 19, 1925*ƒxto a wealthy peasant family in the Kompong Thom Province of Cambodia. He had a privileged upbringing; he was educated in a royal school and then in a Catholic mission school, and his peers saw him as quiet, polite, and charming- though academically average. In 1948, he received a scholarship to study electrical engineering in Paris, where he became fascinated with the works of Marx. He became actively involved in the Cambodian section of the French Communist Party, setting up his own Communist cell with his fellow Cambodian students. He then failed his exams, lost his Government scholarship and returne...