Saloth Sar: Pol Pot: Cambodian Genocide

Saloth Sar was Pol Pot’s real name. Pol pot was a terrible person; he struggled with a bad childhood, become power crazy, and started the Cambodian Genocide. The path that he took made him to become a bad leader. he had many many opportunities in life to be successful in life, but he always ruined the opportunity by doing the wrong things. Pol Pot was a terrible child which lead him to the wrong direction in life. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) was born on “March of 1925, in a little fishing village of Prek Sbav, French Indochina. His family was ethnically mixed, Chinese, Khmer, and comfortably middle-class.” Saloth Sar’s family had connections with the Cambodian royal family. When Saloth Sar was ten years old, his family sent him to 100 miles south to the capital city of Phnom Penh to attend the Ecole Miche, a French Catholic school. Sloth sar flunked out of college in 1953. “Upon his returned to Cambodia, he scouted out the various anti-government rebel groups for the PCF, and reported that the Khmer Viet Minh was the most effective.” …show more content…
“On July 14, 1956, saloth Sar married a teacher named Khieu Ponnary.” he got work as a lecture in French history and literature at a college called Chamraon Vichea. Some important communist leaders were killed while they were in custody. As a result, Saloth sar moved moved up in ranks of surviving party members. In early 1963, a small group of survivors elected Saloth as secretary of the Communist Central Committee of Cambodia. “By March, he had to go into hiding when his name appeared on a list of people wanted for questioning in connection with lefties