Cambodia - Pol Pot

After becoming the victim of a KR mutiny the previous year and put under "house arrest," Pol went to the great piss Pot in the sky on July 15, 1998. KR Brother #1 was chairman and CEO of the 20th century's most brutal and xenophobic government on the planet. Before an autopsy could be performed, Pol Pot's corpse was tossed into a tire-and-easy-chair bonfire by his former buddies less than a kilometer from the Thai border. There was no eulogy and few mourners (just his ex-ammo porter wife, his two kids, a few low-ranking KR cadres and fewer reporters). As his frail, disease-riddled frame was reduced to cinders, his right arm, its fist clenched, could be seen pointing to the sky. It's widely thought Pol took his own life. He was suffering from cerebral malaria, but still he was cerebral enough to realize that capture by government troops was imminent.

Pol's real name was Saloth Sar. He was born to well-off rice farmers, went to Paris on a scholarship to study electronics and came back a Communist. Back home he taught history and geography. He helped to organize the Khmer Rouge in '63 and his little cadre took off during the Vietnam War when U.S. bombers carpet bombed their homes. In 1975, about 70,000 KR rebels overthrew Lon Nol and Year Zero began. The mayhem began in earnest and only stopped when the Vietnamese army invaded and took Phnom Penh in January 1979.

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