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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Pol Pot

Pol Pot was the leader of the group Khemer Rouge. He was in charge of Cambodia for three years, eight months, and twenty-one days. He got suspicious of Vietnam's relationship with Cambodia. Lon Nol got in a civil war with the Khemer Rouge and lost. About 156,000 people died, half being civilians.

People think that his birthday was on May 19, 1928. He went to school in Paris to get a government scholarship. He was a poor student. He eventually got lost in his studies and got really involved in the Communist Party. He began his rivalry in November 1976, taking out cabinet ministers and other top party leaders. Pol Pot was hunted down at the end of all this and was sentenced to life in prison. When he was under house arrest he died of heart failure on the day April 15, 1998.

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