What can the study of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge tell us about the dangers of extremism?

Oct 9, 2008 ... The directors of the most tolerant zones (in the North and the Northwest) who did ... logic, was able to do without rational and concrete public ... ... did not take part in “the struggle” to defeat the US-backed Lon Nol ... Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic ... By April 1975, a Communist group known as the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, seized control of Cambodia, renaming the country Democratic Kampuchea. His government killed between 1.7 and 2.2 million people in the Cambodian genocide. He has been called one of the most brutal dictators in world history. Jun 11, 2015 ... You are at a crossroads where it is not possible to do what is morally right, and the only way out would be suicide. But, if you have children ... Mar 2, 2010 ... From April 1975 until the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia at the every end of 1978, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot attempted to institute one ... Jun 19, 2017 ... A Cambodian food stall began on Monday serving a thin, watery rice porridge that almost everyone had to eat during the 1970s rule of the Khmer Rouge. "As to what I will do with his family, I haven't decided," says Ta Mok. "If I let them go, will they say anything bad about me? Maybe they might be used by Hun ... Jan 21, 1999 ... ... did not die from a heart attack last year, as originally suggested, but committed suicide for fear of being handed over to the United States ... By instigating 'Year Zero' Pol Pot wished to create a state focused on their rural idyll, with all citizens pledging loyalty in a way which prohibited all ...