Questions :
Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge ?
Answer: Pol Pot
Additional Information
The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, whose real name was Saloth Sar. He led the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) and became the head of state when the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, establishing the Democratic Kampuchea regime.
Under his rule from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge carried out radical social engineering policies aimed at creating an agrarian communist utopia. These policies led to forced labor, mass executions, and widespread famine, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people—around a quarter of Cambodia's population at the time.
Pol Pot's regime was overthrown in 1979 by Vietnamese forces, but he and remnants of the Khmer Rouge continued guerrilla resistance for years. He died in 1998 while under house arrest.
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