Pol Pot

[ pol pot ]

noun

1. Saloth Sar, 1928–98, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader and political figure: prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea, 1976–79.

Pol Pot

/ ˈpɒl ˈpɒt /

noun

1. Pol Pot19251998MCambodianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister original name Kompong Thom. 1925–98, Cambodian Communist statesman; prime minister of Kampuchea (1976; 1977–79); his policies led to the deaths of thousands in labour camps before he was overthrown by Vietnamese forces; in 1997 his former supporters in the Khmer Rouge captured him and claimed to have tried and sentenced him to life imprisonment

Example Sentences

Gordon is part of a team the ministry assembled to track down pieces looted from Cambodia during the decades of tumult around a civil war and the genocidal regime of Pol Pot.

From Washington Post

Meanwhile, you have in Romney a candidate to whom the word “vague” applies roughly as “mean” applied to Pol Pot.

From The Daily Beast

An even greater tyrant than Hitler or Pol Pot, Mao is responsible for between 80 and 120 million deaths of his people.

From The Daily Beast