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Topic: Saloth Sar


In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  The Khmer Rouge Trials: An Essay on Accountability and Justice
Of course, Sar could not have orchestrated the killings and destruction of historic proportions without the help from individuals loyal to him as well as from many foot soldiers who served obediently and blindly as the instruments of terrors.
Sar apparently had high regards for his "country." The killings and suffering of millions of Cambodians under his rule, on the other hand, spoke volume about Sar's feelings toward the people living in the country Sar referred to as his country.
Listening to the way Sar expressed himself with his rasp voice, not only was I impressed by Sar's refined oratory skills, I was also struck particularly by the gentility of his voice and the polite manner with which he expressed himself.
www.mekong.net /cambodia/trial_es.htm   (1888 words)

  
 Pol Pot
Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925 - April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 - 1979.
The centre of this uprising was in Vietnam, but it also took place in Cambodia and Laos.
Saloth Sar joined the Viet Minh, but found that they regarded only Vietnam of importance, not Laos and Cambodia.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pol_Pot.html   (1103 words)

  
 Pol Pot
Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925 –; April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, was the ruler of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975.
Saloth Sar was born in Prek Sbauv in what was then a part of French Indochina but which is now in the province of Kompong Thom, Cambodia (since 1925).
Saloth Sar started an armed uprising against the government, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
www.villaggiomondiale.it /Dittatori/polpot-eng.htm   (1808 words)

  
 Pol Pot | Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Saloth Sar, as Pol Pot was originally named, lived comfortably as a child with his father (a prosperous landowner), along with his brother, sister, and female cousin, under the protection of King Sisowath and King Monivong of Cambodia.
For a time Saloth Sar lived in the royal palace, where he witnessed the feudalistic practices, including his sister and cousin's becoming royal consorts, experiences that might have affected his later political thinking.
In 1949 Saloth Sar's fluency in French and his family's political connections earned him a scholarship to study in France, but there he neglected academics to study left-wing politics.
www.bookrags.com /research/pol-pot-ema-04   (631 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com | TIME 100: Pol Pot | 8/23/99-8/30/99
Saloth Sar, as he was called in those days, went to live with them when he was six years old.
In 1949, because of his fluency in French and his political connections, Saloth Sar was given a scholarship to study radio-electricity in France.
After Cambodia became independent in 1954, Saloth Sar led a double life, teaching in a private school in Phnom Penh while he worked in secret in a small, beleaguered communist movement.
www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/pol_pot1.html   (1911 words)

  
 The mass murderer smiled | The San Diego Union-Tribune
This was utopia as envisioned by Saloth Sar, better known by his party alias, Pol Pot, and Short goes a long way toward explaining how and why Cambodia got there.
It helped Sar, an indifferent student who showed no interest in politics until his 20s, gain influence in the Marxist group formed by fellow Cambodian college students in Paris in the early 1950s.
Sar and his fellow revolutionaries never took the time to examine the social conditions in which their lofty ideas would be put into practice.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050320/news_lz1v20polpot.html   (1108 words)

  
 Dance | the Spirit of Cambodia | Arts & Culture
But I persuaded him that Pol Pot was really called Saloth Sar, and had been born near the town: I'd forgotten the name of the village, but I had seen it mentioned in books, and knew it was close by.
Saloth Sar had gone away to Phnom Penh while he was still quite young, and after that they had not seen very much of him.
They had been treated no differently from anyone else during the Pol-Pot-time; they had not had the remotest idea that `Pol Pot' was their brother Sar, born in their house.
www.asiasource.org /cambodia/ghosh07.htm   (1671 words)

  
 Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, the leader of the Khmer Rouge grew up in a poor rural family in Cambodia.
Saloth Sar did not do well in school in Paris, as he spent most of him time at
Saloth Sar's secret code name in the party was "Pol Pot" meaning "Original Cambodian".
www.unc.edu /~londont/Cambodia.htm   (1076 words)

  
 CSC,LLC. - Point of View - Cambodia
Saloth Sar was born in 1925, in a sleepy village on the Stung Sen River; his parents were religious people, devoted Buddhists who instilled in their children a respect for human life.
The village where they lived were called Prek Sbov, and Saloth Sar was a pleasant enough looking man, yet unremarkable; a little on the chubby side, but someone who you felt would be the kind of person that you would really want to have as a colleague.
However, his brother, Saloth Nhep, 71, has not seen his sibling in over thirty years and who still lives in the ancestral settlement; said of his brother, "When he was young, he was really gentle, as I knew him.
www.chapmanspira.com /pov/Cambodia/cambodia.htm   (18390 words)

  
 Dance | the Spirit of Cambodia | Arts & Culture
The youngest was a boy of six called Saloth Sar, who was later to take the nom de guerre, Pol Pot.
The young Saloth Sar's palace connections ensured places for him at some of the country's better-known schools.
That was how she discovered that the leader of Angkar, the terrifying, inscrutable `Organisation', that ruled over their lives was none other than little Saloth Sar.
www.asiasource.org /cambodia/ghosh03.htm   (1010 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA - The Killing Fields
From 1978 onward, an estimated 500,000 Cambodian people died as a result of the Vietnamese invasion and occupation and subsequent guerilla wars.
The Khmers Rouges (Red Cambodians) came into prominence when Saloth Sar (later known as Pol Pot), and others left Phnom Penh and began an insurrection in 1963.
Saloth Sar, born 1928, was educated in Paris, where he committed himself to the French Communist Party.
www.aiipowmia.com /sea/fields.html   (1054 words)

  
 ABS-CBN Interactive
ol Pot (a.k.a., Saloth Sar), the despotic ruler of Cambodia, or Democratic Kampuchea as he would have it, between 1970 and 1991, in common with Mao Tse Tung thought that reeducation through physical labor, involving social reengineering on a massive scale, was the way to go economically.
Pol Pot (a.k.a., Saloth Sar), the despotic ruler of Cambodia, or Democratic Kampuchea as he would have it, between 1970 and 1991, in common with Mao Tse Tung thought that reeducation through physical labor, involving social reengineering on a massive scale, was the way to go economically.
These schemes involved the forced relocation, usually of massive numbers of educated people from urban centers to the countryside in order that they should appreciate firsthand the lot of the peasant farmer in the agricultural sector and contribute directly to irrigation schemes and the production of food.
www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryID=50248   (681 words)

  
 Enge Profil of PolPot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Uncle) of Saloth Sar, named Saloth Suong became a important employee in the royal palate - He married in 1940 with a dancer of the palate, named Chea Samy.
Between 1934-35, the parents of Sar sent him to live at Phnom Penh with his brother and his sister-in-law, Saloth Suong and Chea Samy.
As a teenager, Saloth Sar often worked in the farm and had fact followed teaching Buddhism to become monk.
amekhmer.free.fr /index_files/1photo-choc1/k-profilPolPot.htm   (2494 words)

  
 The Lie Of Of Vietnam - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
During the seven years which followed its departure of Phnom Penh, Saloth Sar carried out an existence of fugitive, hiding in camps of fortune of the east and the North-East of Kampuchea.
Saloth Sar and his comrades had probably been convened by the Vietnameses to discuss the climbing of the war and the role growing that the Kampuchean Communists would have to play It was necessary to develop the tactics, as well as a suitable political line.
Saloth Sar gave for his associated Vietnamese of the conferences on the situation in Kampuchea; he also tackled " the problem of the name of the party " (David G. Chandler)
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5042   (1990 words)

  
 Pol Pot Cambodian ART Authentic Khmer Silks and Cambodian Handicrafts, Silk Pillow Cases, Silk Robes, Khmer Kaben, ...
Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar in a small village near Kompong Thom in 1925.
During the 1960's Sihanouk switched from friend of the left to foe and back again, but in 1963 his repressive policies sent Saloth Sar and comrades fleeing to the jungles of Ratannakiri.
It was from this time that he began to call himself Pol Pot, although it was not for a number of years that anyone would make the connection between the one-time teacher and the leader of Democratic Kampuchea.
www.ksilks.com /pol_pot.htm   (1600 words)

  
 CNN - Pol Pot's relatives recall dictator's childhood - Aug. 18, 1997
Prek Sbov is where Saloth Sar, the boy who later became known as Pol Pot, was born in 1925, according to relatives still alive.
Astonishingly, it was not until near the end of the Khmer Rouge 1975-1979 regime that Saloth Nhep who, like millions of other Cambodians was a victim of Pol Pot's forced labor camps, realized that the secretive dictator was his brother.
Why the boy born as Saloth Sar chose to ignore that upbringing is a mystery.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/18/cambodia   (530 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Saloth Sar": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Saloth Sar-later to take the nom de guerre Pol Pot- was barely passing his courses at a provincial college when the Japanese...
The latter were controlled by the clandestine Communist party of Kampuchea (CPK), led by Saloth Sar, who was known to the world after 1976 as Pol Pot.
On May 19, 1928, Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar, the youngest of seven children.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Saloth-Sar   (593 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Enos Slaughter *
Taking as their namesake a baseball player with perhaps the second greatest name of all time (the illustrious Rusty Kuntz possessing the first), Enos Slaughter are a New York trio featuring members of NNCK, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and IZITITIZ, among a host of other side and one-off projects.
Recorded at the studios of the venerable WFMU radio station in early 2003, Saloth Sar represents the groups' first foray into compact disc medium, with a vinyl release having already in the can (also at the hands of the NNCK-helmed Sound@One).
There are individual sounds and passages here that are worthy of note, and yet at the same time one would be hard-pressed to find a way to tie it all together.
www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1743   (557 words)

  
 Pol Pot Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, 1928.
Pol Pot consistently denied that he was Saloth Sar, probably because his family and educational background clashed with Communist proletarian perceptions and because his tactical and organizational skills seemed to h.....
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
www.bookrags.com /biography/pol-pot   (185 words)

  
 KR Years: The Faces of Angka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As one of the leading masterminds behind the Khmer Rouge, Saloth Sar became best known under his pseudonym, Pol Pot.
Pol Pot served as chairman of the party, for which he claimed the infamous title "Brother Number One" and the reputation as the all-out leader of the Khmer Rouge.
The people behind Angka were known only among themselves until September, 1977, when Saloth Sar - using his nom de guerre Pol Pot - introduced the world to Democratic Kampuchea through a public radio broadcast.
www.edwebproject.org /sideshow/khmeryears/angka.html   (577 words)

  
 Pol Pot - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pol Pot, also Pol Porth or Tol Saut, pseudonym of Saloth Sar (1928-1998), Cambodian guerrilla commander and political leader, generally considered...
The rivalry between Cambodia’s two prime ministers erupted in July 1997, with open fighting paralysing Phnom Penh.
In 1963 Pol Pot, then a Communist teacher named Saloth Sar,...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Pol_Pot.html   (92 words)

  
 Soul Survivors | Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia
The war for independence in Vietnam begins as Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh army fights the French.
Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) goes to study in France.
Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) becomes leader of Cambodia's Communist Party.
www.efn.org /~bhavia/canvas-history-01.htm   (1122 words)

  
 20th Century Genocides - Cambodia Genocide
An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.
Pol Pot was born in 1925 (as Saloth Sar) into a farming family in central Cambodia, which was then part of French Indochina.
In 1949, at age 20, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics but became absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies.
www.unitedhumanrights.org /polpot.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Biography of Pol Pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Pseudonym for Salah Sar, Cambodian communist politician and prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea (DK) from 1976 to 1979.
Pol Pot was born into a prosperous peasant family that enjoyed the patronage of the Cambodian court.
www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/polpot.cfm   (379 words)

  
 Pol Pot's Charisma
Pol Pot was actually named Saloth Sar when he came into the world in January 1925 (Thayer, 1997, p.
Much of what has been written about Pol Pot since his time in power has been intemperate, reflecting the prevailing human reactions toward the brutal dictator's rule responsible for the deaths of over one million Cambodians in the late 1970s.
As suggested by David P. Chandler in his political biography of Pol Pot entitled Brother Number One, Pol Pot or Saloth Sar belonged among the visionary leaders of Cambodian history - a history filled with prolonged exploitations by foreign powers from near and far.
www.mekong.net /cambodia/pol_pot1.htm   (3101 words)

  
 www.mujestic.com - Pol Pot: Life of a tyrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He is thought to have been about 72 when he died, although the exact date of his birth is not clear.
Born Saloth Sar - Pol Pot was a nom de guerre - the fledgling tyrant grew up in a relatively prosperous farming family in Kompong Thong province, the heartland of the then French protectorate.
One of his brothers, Saloth Neap, once described Pol Pot as a gentle and kind child.
www.mujestic.com /pol_pot__life_of_a_tyrant   (721 words)

  
 Yale > Cambodian Genocide Project >The Khmer Rouge regime
The Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the CPK consisted of the same core group for some 25 years.
Often called the "Party Center," this group comprised Saloth Sar (alias Pol Pot), Nuon Chea, Chhit Choeun (alias Mok), Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Yun Yat, Ieng Thirith, and Ke Pauk.
On April 17, 1975, a bitter five-year civil war was concluded with the Party Center leading the Khmer Rouge to victory over the US-backed Khmer Republic of General Lon Nol.
www.yale.edu /cgp/kr.html   (565 words)

  
 Diogenes Lamp » Blog Archive » Kampuchea – VIVRE LE REVOLUTION!!!
Since the country was sealed off from the rest of the world, and there were no tourists, what the money was used for remains a mystery.
Upon returning to Cambodia Saloth Sar fell in love with the primitive agrarian life of the poorest and most backward highland peasants, and formed the idea that, in a perfect communal society, everybody would live like that.
Pol Pot’s shadowy reticence explains the strangest part about the currency: there is no ‘head of the leader’ on it, which there certainly would be in other Marxist dictatorships, or in any country for that matter.
www.diogeneslamp.net /?p=261   (1555 words)

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