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Saloth Sâr , plus connu sous le nom de Pol Pot, est un homme d'État cambodgien, chef des Khmers rouges et du Parti communiste du Kampuchéa.

Après avoir dirigé la guérilla khmère rouge pendant la guerre civile, il est à partir de 1975 le principal chef du régime communiste cambodgien appelé Kampuchéa, d'abord en tant que dirigeant de facto, puis officiellement en tant que Premier ministre de 1976 à 1979. Le programme d'étude sur le génocide cambodgien de l'université Yale évalue le nombre de victimes des politiques de son gouvernement à environ 1,7 million de morts, soit plus de 20 % de la population de l'époque.

Chassé du pouvoir par l'invasion vietnamienne, Pol Pot continue ensuite de diriger les maquis khmers rouges qui poursuivent la lutte contre les Vietnamiens. Après 1991, les Khmers rouges sont exclus du processus de paix au Cambodge. En 1997, Pol Pot, malade, est destitué et arrêté par son propre mouvement ; il meurt un an plus tard. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. mai 1925 – 15. avril 1998
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Pol Pot: Citations en anglais

“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

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September 2018
Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“I was responsible for everything so I accept responsibility and blame but show me, comrade, one document proving that I was personally responsible for the deaths.”

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As reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in Brother Number One (1999) by David P. Chandler
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“First, I would like to tell you that I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look at me, am I savage person? My conscience is clear.”

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Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.”

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September 2018
Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”

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Interview with Elizabeth Becker (22 December 1978), quoted in "Pol Pot remembered" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/81048.stm, BBC News (20 April 1998)

“Tuol Sleng was a Vietnamese exhibition; a journalist wrote that. People talk about Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng, Toul Sleng, but when we look at the pictures, the pictures are the same. When I first heard about Tuol Sleng, it was on VOA [Voice of America]. I listened twice.”

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Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“Everything I did, I did for my country.”

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Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“Our policy was to provide an affluent life for the people. There were mistakes made in carrying it out. Several thousand people may have died.”

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Interview with Robert Whytman for The Guardian (11 December 1979)

“There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and also by the enemy — but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.”

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Nate Thayer interview (1997)

“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”

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On the Democratic Kampuchea period, as reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in David P. Chandler, Brother Number One (1999)
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