Pol Pot

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BK, HPP, pp. 25, 27, 29, 119, 120-123, 128, 155, 203, 429 / BK, PPR, pp. 9, 10, 11, 13n30, 33, 54-58, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 100, 105, 106, 115-121, 127, 238, 267, 328-329, 331, 354, 387, 387n3, 411, 431

Saloth Sar ;

Khmer ; (BK, PPR, p. 10)

19280519 (BK, HPP, p. 25) ~ 19280519 (BK, PPR, p. 9)

Prek Sbauv village, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province ;notes: downstream from Kampong Thom (BK, PPR, p. 9)

Phen Saloth ; (BK, HPP, p. 25)

Sok Nem ; (BK, HPP, p. 25)

Loth Saroeung ;type of rel.: S ;notes: his eldest sister, chosen at 15 as a royal consort (BK, PPR, p.10) ~ Loth Suong ;type of rel.: B ;notes: in 1928 this eldest brother began a career in palace protocol (BK, PPR, p.10) ~ Khieu Ponnary ;type of rel.: W ;notes: eight years his senior, the first woman to get the baccalaureat, married on July 14, 1956 (BK, PPR, p.11) ~ Hong ;type of rel.: nephew ;notes: "the right arm of Ieng Sary, became a new 'special commissar for Phnom Penh' in August 1978" (BK, PPR, p.437) ~ Saloth Chhay ;type of rel.: B ;notes: journalist and member of Son Thanh Ngoc's forces in the early 1950s (BK, HPP, p. 123) ~ Loth Suong ;type of rel.: Bg ; (BK, HPP, p. 25) ~ Luk Khun Meak ;notes: his cousin, a palace dancer, "one of King Monivong's principal wives" (BK, PPR, p.10) ~ Ieng Sary ;type of rel.: Bl ; (BK, PPR, p. 54)

at the age of 6, "Sar was sent to Phnom Penh and for one year was a novice at Botum Vodey monastery," the religious center of the small, royalist Thommayut order. When he was 8, "he began schooling at the Ecole Miche, a private Catholic school, and spent the next six years there." At 14, apparently because of a failed entrance examination to a Phnom Penh school, Sar was sent to the city of Kampong Cham for his intermediate education, spending six years at the Norodom Sihanouk High School. After returning to Phnom Penh in 1948, to study carpentry at the Russey Keo Technical School, Sar received a scholarship to take a two-year technicians' course at the Ecole Francaise de radioelectricite in Paris. He failed in his third year of study, and returned to Cambodia, arriving in Phnom Penh on 14 January 1953 (BK, HPP, pp. 27, 29, 122) ~ educated in Paris, France, 194909- (BK, PPR, p. 10)

.246 ;notes: peasant family (BKI 131 A, B, p. 333)

joined up with Unified Issarak Front, arriving in Kampong Cham in the UIF Eastern Zone headquarters in August 1953. Joined an "ICP cell" (BK, HPP, pp. 123, 128)

Zone CPK Secretary, Northeast Zone, 1968????-1970???? (BK, PPR, p. 81)

CPK Secretary-General, 1962???? (BK, PPR, p. 33) ~ Prime Minister, Head of Cabinet, DK, secretly from March 30, 1976, and openly from April 14, 1976 (BK, PPR, pp. 326-327)

So Phim ;notes: sent troops against So Phim in May of 1978; broadcast that So Phim was a traitor; the troops murdered So Phim's wife and guards (BKI 131 A, B, p. 322) ~ Region 23 cadres, 1978 (BKI 131 A, B, p. 321) ~ Mey Pho ;code: 1.56, killed ;notes: ki

studied in France: with other Khmer students living in Paris, Sary in 1950 formed a "Marxist Circle," "apparently affiliated with the French Communist Party (PCF)as its "Khmer-language section." In mid-1950, he "spent a month of his holidays in a work brigade in Yugoslavia" (BK, HPP, p. 120) ~ joined revolution in 1955 or 1956 (BKI 131 A, B, p. 316) ~ secret Central Committee formed in railway station (BKI 131 A, B, p. 316) ~ Pol Pot defeats So Phim in election to CPK secretary "by opinion," not vote (BKI 131 A, B, p. 315) ~ came to Phum Bos with Nuon Chea, in 1966 or 1967 (BKI 131 A, B, p. 318) ~ in 1977, Pol Pot said the party was created in 1960, not 1951 (BKI 131 A, B, p. 335) ~ from early 1977, he said Vietnam was an aggressor, which wants all of Kampuchea (BKI 131 A, B, p. 322) ~ obtained weapons from China, including cannons and tanks (BKI 131 A, B, p. 322) ~ ordered So Phim in 1977 to use Divisions 3, 4, 5 to attack Vietnam; they went in up to 10-15 kilometers, and committed massacres and atrocities (BKI 131 A, B, p. 323) ~ in 1977, sent three Central Committee divisions into the Eastern Zone to attack Vietnam (BKI 131 A, B, p. 334) ~ on May 10, 1978, Pol Pot refused Vietnamese appeal for negotiations (BKI 131 A, B, p. 324, 330) ~ in 1973, Pol Pot stated that the Paris agreement meant that Vietnam was merely giving in to the Americans; he accused Vietnam of also fighting Kampuchea (BKI 131 A, B, p. 332) ~ dropped So Phim as Front President, circa 1977-1978 (?); accused him of planning an armed uprising (BKI 131 A, B, p. 325) ~ in 1977, Pol Pot believed war against Vietnam was possible because he was encouraged by China, and he possesed tanks from Yugoslavia (BKI 131 A, B, p. 333) ~ during 1st Party Central Committee Congress, circa September 1971, Pol Pot said to order anti-Vietnamese conflict in certain organizations, not throughout the whole country (BKI 131 A, B, p. 331) ~ during 1976 Congress, November or December, Vietnam is declared enemy No. 1 of Kampuchea; also KGB and CIA are named as enemies (BKI 131 A, B, p. 330) ~ in 1955 allegedly was smuggled back into Phnom Penh by Pham Van Ba (BK, HPP, p. 155) ~ in May 1963 Pol Pot and Ieng Sary dissappeared from their jobs in Phnom Penh and moved to the border area of Kompong Cham (BK, HPP, p. 203) ~ attended Special National Congress, Phnom Penh, 19750424 (BK, PPR, p. 54) ~ gave speech at meeting in Phnom Penh, 19750521 ;notes: According to Heng Samrin, while discussing the building of socialism, Pol Pot instructed, "Don't use money, don't let the people live in cities." Monks were to be disrobed, and religion as a whole wiped out (BK, PPR, p. 57) ~ gave a speech at a meeting of the CPK Central Committee, Phnom Penh, 19750722 (BK, PPR, p. 94) ~ gave a speech at first meeting of Democratic Kampuchea Cabinet, 19760422 ;notes: "In his speech... Pol Pot let fly, 'Vietnam is a black dragon,' he said that 'spits poison'" (BK, PPR, p. 111) ~ addressed "1976 Study Session" with assurance of solidarity and internal unity, 19760928 (BK, PPR, p. 331) ~ addressed a meeting of Eastern Zone officials at Wat Taung, 1978???? ;notes: spoke about attacking Vietnam (BK, PPR, p. 387)

So Phim (BKI 131 A, B, p. 320) ~ Mey Mann (BK, PPR, p. 10) ~ Thioun Thiounn (BK, PPR, p. 10) ~ Thioun Chum (BK, PPR, p. 10) ~ Ieng Sary (BK, PPR, p. 11) ~ Son Sen (BK, PPR, p. 11)

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