To implement this man's idea of returning the country to "Year Zero," the army forced millions of people into the countryside, where they ended up in "killing fields" and death camps like S-21.
This man insisted that most of his alleged crimes were foreign propaganda in a 1997 interview with Nate Thayer. This leader's economic policies were taken from a dissertation that an advisor wrote at the Sorbonne in 1959. Two years after taking power, he revealed that the existence of the nation's ruling party, called "The Organization" or Angkar [ahn-kuh]. This man, whose common name is actually a nom de guerre, went by the title (*) "Brother Number One" and overthrew the dictator Lon Nol. To implement this man's idea of returning the country to "Year Zero," the army forced millions of people into the countryside, where they ended up in "killing fields" and death camps like S-21. For 10 points, name this murderous leader of Democratic Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge.
This man insisted that most of his alleged crimes were foreign propaganda in a 1997 interview with Nate Thayer.
Pol Pot [or Saloth Sar] (the economic advisor is Khieu Samphan) &lt;WA, WorldHist&gt;