How Pol Pot came to power – Interesting facts on how Pol Pot came to lead Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot started out started out the same as the rest of us, and he was born in 1928 in Kampong Thum Province in Cambodia. He went to technical high school in the capital, Phnom Penh. Then in 1949 he went to study electronics in Paris. It was Paris where he joined the French Communist Party and Marxist-Leninists. He also became a part of the Khmer Students’ Association (KSA), which was said to be about two hundred students who belonged. Pol Pot and other members wrote a letter to Sihanouk, the leader of Cambodia at the time, and said that he was the “strangler of infant democracy.” Due to this action, a year later KSA was closed.
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