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Tyrant Seminar 1

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia who overthrew the government in 1975 and forced the evacuation of Phnom Penh, resulting in thousands of deaths. As leader, Pol Pot instituted authoritarian communist rule and outlawed private property, religion, and most books. His regime was responsible for over 2 million deaths in Cambodia through executions and slave labor. Vietnam eventually invaded and removed Pol Pot from power in 1979, ending his brutal dictatorship. While ruling, both Pol Pot in Cambodia and Macbeth in Shakespeare's play caused immense suffering for their countries through violence, death, and destruction of civil society.

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Tyrant Seminar 1

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia who overthrew the government in 1975 and forced the evacuation of Phnom Penh, resulting in thousands of deaths. As leader, Pol Pot instituted authoritarian communist rule and outlawed private property, religion, and most books. His regime was responsible for over 2 million deaths in Cambodia through executions and slave labor. Vietnam eventually invaded and removed Pol Pot from power in 1979, ending his brutal dictatorship. While ruling, both Pol Pot in Cambodia and Macbeth in Shakespeare's play caused immense suffering for their countries through violence, death, and destruction of civil society.

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Pol Pot VS Macbeth

By Kalyssa

Biography of Pol Pot


Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on may 19 in 1925. He was born in Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia. Saloth was educated at a monastery in the
capital city of Phnom Penh. Later he attended a French Catholic school. He soon studied carpentry and eventually he received a scholarship from the
government, where he ended up studying radio technology in paris. While In Paris, he became involved with the Communist Party, taking on the
name Pol Pot. He met his wife Khieu Ponnary while he was in paris in 1956, and eventually became a high school educator but later became
absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies. When his scholarship was withdrawn, he returned to Cambodia, with intentions on building a
revolution there. In 1953 Pol Pot joined the underground Communist movement. Pol pot was afraid that he would be arrested so he fled Phnom
Penh. Cambodia's prince was overthrown by and replaced by Lon Nol, who had U.S support. After the civil war, which included heavy U.S bombing
aimed at preventing communist leaders take over cambodia, The Khmer Rouge army took control of Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge was an armed
resistance created by Pol pot. Pol Pot was influenced by Chinas Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse-tung, thus following that countrys lead in
evacuating cities and forcing people into a rural, farming life. When the khmer rouge took power more than two million people were evacuated from
phnom penh. The evacuation process was awful, children, elderly people and those who were hospitalized were forced to evacuate. Thousands died
in only the first few weeks of the Khmer Rouges reign.The khmer rouge executed anyone they thought represented old society.That includes
intellectuals, merchants, Buddhist monks, former government officials and former soldiers. They had also targeted members of cambodia's ethnic
minorities. Most of the chinese that were living in cambodia were executed, along with around 90,000 muslims. Khmer rouge was responsible for
over two million deaths in cambodia. The kmehr was controlling the remainder of the survivors lives. The government outlawed money, private
property, religion and most books. The dictatorship also separated children from their parents and forced arranged marriages.

The falling of khmer rouge


Vietnam eventually entered cambodia disposing of Pol Pot and the khmer rouge. Once the country opened its
border to outsiders, people learned the horrors of Pol Pot, he was found guilty of genocide by tribunal,
although he was never imprisoned. Pol Pot fled phnom penh and went to the jungle once he heard about
vietnam's occupation. Pol Pot retired as the leader of khmer rouge by the late 1980s. In 1997 Pol Pot was
arrested and placed under house arrest where he died later from natural causes on april 15 1998.

Pol pot vs macbeth


While the tyrants are ruling, both Cambodia and scotland suffer immensely. Both countries lifestyles were destroyed with fear. Death violence and
slave labour were a common occurrence in the countries.

"Alas! Poor country,


Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot
Be called our mother, but our grave; where nothing,
But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air
Are made, not marked; where violent sorrow seems
A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell
Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives
Expire before the flowers in their caps,
Dying or ere they sicken" (IV.iii.164-173).

Humans rights
Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of a person
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhumane, or degrading treatment
or punishment.
Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family,
home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the
right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Discussion questions
Who was a worse tyrant?

http://www.biography.com/people/pol-pot-9443888#synopsis
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm

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