波布(1925～1998年)

Pol Pot，原名Saloth Sar。

柬埔寨总理（1975～1979）。出生於小农村，曾就读过中等专业学校。1949到法国学习无线电技术，在那里认识了胡志明并加入了柬埔寨共产党。1953年回国教授法语直到1963年受到警察怀疑。接下来的十二年里他一直在组建共产党。美国在柬埔寨的反共行动，包括推翻施亚努国王和对乡村的轰炸，促使很多人加入他的组织。1975年他领导的赤棉武装组织占领了金边，他命令金边全城人撤出，即使是病人也被拉下病床。据估计仅在第一周内就有数万人死亡。为了追求回到「零年」，建立一个人种纯粹的农业性共产主义国家，他的冷血统治导致了两百万人死亡。1979年他被越南人推翻，转而领导了反越游击战，直至他被赤棉批判并判决入狱（1997）。入狱第二年去世。

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1925～1998年

Pol Pot

Prime minister of Cambodia (1975-79). Born in a small village, Pol Pot attended trade school. In 1949 he went to France to study radio technology, where he met Ho Chi Minh and became a member of the Cambodian Communist Party. He returned to Cambodia in 1953 and taught French until he fell under police suspicion in 1963. He spent the next 12 years building up the Communist Party. U.S. anticommunist activity in Cambodia, including the toppling of Norodom Sihanouk and a bombing campaign in the countryside, drove many to join him. In 1975 his Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh, which he ordered entirely evacuated. Even the sick were wheeled out in hospital beds, and in the first weeks it is estimated that tens of thousands died. The ruthlessness with which he pursued his intention to return to “year zero” and create an ethnically pure, agrarian, communist state resulted in as many as 2 million deaths. Overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1979, he led an anti-Vietnamese guerrilla war until he was repudiated by the Khmer Rouge and sentenced to life imprisonment (1997); he died the next year.