Pol Pot was born in 1925 into a wealthy Cambodian family, and his cousin and adoptive mother was one of the most favored concubines of the King of Cambodia at the time.
As a young man, Pol Pot was given the opportunity to study in France due to his excellent grades and the sponsorship of his cousin.
France, the homeland of the Revolution, was influenced by revolutionary ideas and formed the "Marxist-Leninist Group" with a group of progressive youths studying in France, during which he also joined the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Communist Party of Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh.
The reason why Pol Pot joined the Communist Party of Indochina was because the important task of Cambodia at that time was to resist France and the United States, and the two sides had common needs in this regard.
In the 50s, in order to develop the CPM, Ho Chi Minh sent people to Cambodia to form the Cambodian People's Revolutionary Party, and those progressive youths who had been active in France, including Pol Pot, gradually became the backbone of the People's Revolutionary Party.
Although the People's Revolutionary Party suffered serious damage and lost 90% of its members due to the defection of the upper leadership Xixing, the flame of revolution was not extinguished. Soon after, 21 delegates held a national congress in Phnom Penh and founded the Workers' Party of Cambodia.
At this meeting, the Workers' Party established the military line of the armed revolution against the counter-revolutionary regime, and Dusmu was elected as the leader. More than a year later, under the strict encirclement and suppression of **, Du Simu was killed, and Pol Pot fled with a small number of men and horses into the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas, experienced nine deaths, and finally rose to the top of the list.
At this time, Cambodia can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, competing for hegemony, and at least 3 forces are active on the stage, and they are **"Free Khmer"., pro-French"Khmer Rouge"., as well as those close to the revolution"Khmer Rouge".。("Khmer" is another name for Cambodia, and the Khmer people are the main ethnic group in Cambodia).
As French influence in the Indochina Peninsula declined, the United States grew more and more. By 1970, the ** power Lon Nol, with the support of the United States, took advantage of Sihanouk's outing, overthrew Sihanouk's regime and became the ruler of Cambodia.
During this period, the power of the Khmer Rouge also grew. In 1967, a peasant uprising against the grain requisition broke out in northwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge quickly intervened, taking the opportunity to develop its own armed forces and set up its own military school.
During this period, the Khmer Rouge was dissatisfied with the Viet Cong's ambition to dominate the Indochina Peninsula, and gradually distanced themselves from them, and finally went to **.
At that time, the Viet Cong and the United States were at loggerheads, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail, an important supply line for North Vietnam, became a key target for the U.S. military. Part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail crosses Cambodia, and the indiscriminate bombardment of this place by the US military has aroused extreme disgust among the Cambodian people, who have joined the Khmer Rouge in their mission to resist the United States.
The Khmer Rouge grew in power and formed an alliance with Sihanouk. At the beginning of 1975, the Khmer Rouge ended with 180,000 troops surrounded Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Under heavy artillery fire, the Lon Nol group was forced to flee to the United States.
Since then, the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot have taken center stage. Sihanouk was forced to announce his retirement in April 1976 and was confined to the palace, losing all contact with the outside world.
After that, Pol Pot began to show his madness, and in the three years and eight months of his rule, the number of unnatural deaths in Cambodia reached more than one million to more than two million, accounting for 1 7 of the total population of Cambodia at that time. All kinds of absurd and shocking stories are happening in this one.
In January 1979, the reunified Vietnam took advantage of the Khmer Rouge's unpopularity and Cambodian discontent to invade Cambodia. Vietnam then installed a puppet regime and extended its hand to Laos. As a result, the situation in Indochina once again plunged into chaos and war.
In order to put an end to the chaos, the Paris Peace Agreement on the settlement of the Cambodian problem was finally reached in 1991 after repeated consultations between the five permanent members of the United Nations and the Quartet of the Cambodian conflict. The Khmer Rouge, as one of the four parties to the Cambodian conflict, also became one of the signatories.
The parties promised that the Khmer Rouge would not be held accountable for their previous crimes, which not only ensured the political status of the Khmer Rouge, but also their safety.
However, after the signing of the agreement, Pol Pot went back on his word and interfered with the UN peacekeeping operation at every turn, refusing to recognize Hun Sen's regime on the grounds that the Vietnamese troops had not yet fully withdrawn. The reason behind it is very simple, it is nothing more than that the Khmer Rouge has no chance of winning in the future **, and wants to take the opportunity to bargain.
At this time, it was the end of the 20th century, the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union had greatly eased, the relations between China and the Soviet Union had gradually thawed, and the world pattern was no longer what it used to be. However, Pol Pot did not recognize the international situation and did not use this reality to improve his image, but continued to be superstitious about force, clamoring to return to the mountains and forests to resist persistently.
On 20 January 1992, the Security Council adopted a resolution excluding the Khmer Rouge from the new **. In July 1994, Cambodia** declared the Khmer Rouge an illegal organization.
Pol Pot went further and further down the road to madness, and the contradictions within the Khmer Rouge became more and more open. Qiao Sengpan, Song Cheng and others believe that because they follow the trend of history, participate in the **, and obtain legal land, Pol Pot is still superstitious about jungle struggle.
The Khmer Rouge's No. 2 man, Ingsaly, once implemented the "New Economic Policy" in the area under his control, allowing private individuals to own property ** and private individuals, which was strongly opposed by Pol Pot, and the conflict between the two intensified. In 1996, under the tough blow of the ** army, Ying Sali led 2 divisions under his command to surrender to **.
Subsequently, Cambodia ** announced an amnesty for the British Sali, and the Khmer Rouge saw this situation and was surprised that their No. 2 person could be pardoned, and people's hearts became more and more divided, after all, no one wanted to stay in the jungle with Uncle Bo for the rest of their lives to live a primitive life.
During this period, Pol Pot accepted the last interview of his life, and in the face of questions from American journalist Nat Thayer, Pol Pot said: "I just want to fight, not to kill, and my conscience is innocent!" ”
In 1997, the Khmer Rouge Commander-in-Chief Song Cheng began to secretly contact Cambodia, but was discovered by Pol Pot because of his poor planning, and Pol Pot ordered the killing of all his family and repeatedly ran over his body with a vehicle.
Seeing that Pol Pot was so crazy, his subordinates began to plot a rebellion. Eventually, Pol Pot was captured by his enraged men and sentenced to life in prison for "betraying the Khmer Rouge cause."
Pol Bu was very inward-looking, and he had previously insisted on fighting to the end, declaring: "I will fight until the end of the world" and "I will fight alone", but in the public court, he wagked his tail and begged his former comrades-in-arms to spare his life, saying"It is in the best interests of the organization to let me live than to execute me. ”
In April 1998, Pol Pot died of a heart attack at the age of 73 in a small cabin where he was imprisoned. After Pol Pot's death, his body was pulled from a clearing in the jungle for cremation.
A month before Pol Pot's death, the headquarters of the Khmer Rouge had already been occupied by the ** army. After Pol Pot's death, other leaders of the Khmer Rouge surrendered or were surrendered or killed.