This man's party used the metaphor "pull up the grass, dig up the roots" when fighting opposition, and he committed suicide the day the Voice of America broadcasted that his party would turn him over to international authorities.
This man's party used the metaphor "pull up the grass, dig up the roots" when fighting opposition, and he committed suicide the day the Voice of America broadcasted that his party would turn him over to international authorities. He divided his nation's peasants into three "layers". In gaining power, this man declared a Year Zero and deindustrialized his country. This man converted a high school into a prison where 20,000 people were killed in the S-21 campaign. He lost power after a failed 1975 invasion of Vietnam and was exiled to Thailand. For 10 points, name this man who murdered opponents in the "killing fields," a Cambodian dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge.
This man's party used the metaphor "pull up the grass, dig up the roots" when fighting opposition, and he committed suicide the day the Voice of America broadcasted that his party would turn him over to international authorities.
Pol Pot [or Saloth Sar] 