Pol Pot

"The Khmer Rouge was a band of guerrilla fighters. Guerrilla tactics will always be the traditional army."

- Jonathan Khan, Pol Pot Weapons Expert Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator whose Khmer Rouge guerillas committed genocide on a quarter of the country's population.

vs. Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi tyrant whose Republican Guard not only slaughtered his enemies, but his own people.

Stats

Age- 50 (1975 start of his Cambodian dictatorship)

Height- 5'9"

Weight- 194 lbs.

Reign- 1975-1979

Symbol- Skulls of the Killing Fields (Mass Graves of the Cambodian Genocide)

Bio

Leader of the Cambodian Communist movement Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot (a.k.a. Saloth Sar) was one of the most ruthless and vicious dictators in modern history. Nearly 1.7 million people died from Khmer Rouge policies during Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. The eighth of nine children, he was born in 1925 in Prek Sbauv in Kampong Thom Province. After receiving a government scholarship to study abroad in Paris, Pol Pot spent most of his time being active in a communist party rather than studying. A year after he returned to Cambodia in 1954, Cambodia won its independence from France and this is when Pol Pot started getting involved with the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), the first Communist party in Cambodia. Pot rose to power in 1976 to become Prime Minster and, feeling that Cambodia was overpopulated, ordered hundreds of thousands to dig their own graves in shackles. Pot's targets were those who were religious, minorities, and western-influenced. In 1979 Vietnam invaded Cambodia and this left Pot struggling to cling to power, so he fled to the jungles in southwest Cambodia and Khmer Rouge's power plummeted. While the Khmer Rouge was reduced to a terrorist group, the United States and allies secretly funded the Khmer Rouge, hoping to remove Vietnam from Cambodia and returning Pol Pot as the leader of Cambodia and the UN denied aid to Cambodia under Vietnamese control. Pol Pot was funded greatly, his Khmer Rouge keeping their strength of 10s of thousands for many years and was promised that his war crimes would not be tried by international law. In 1995, a stroke crippled Pol Pot's left side of his body. Around the same time, many Khmer Rouge started deserting along with other Khmer Rouge leaders, yet Pol Pot refused to declare peace with the new Cambodian government. In 1997, the Khmer Rouge's leaders were dividing the orgonization, making Pol Pot massacre his former members like Son Sen. Other Khmer Rouge leaders began fighting each other, leading Pol Pot to be arrested by Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok on June 19, 1997. Now a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge for the murder of Son Sen and Sen's family, the rebels allowed Pol Pot to be put on trial for his war crimes by the official government of Cambodia (The Kingdom of Cambodia). In 1998, just before he was about to be turned over to an international tribunal to be tried for his devious crimes, he passed away due to heart failure. It seems like Pol Pot's own motto "To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss." served him well in the end – his loss was a nation's benefit.

Weapons

• Chinese Stick Grenade
• RPD Light Machine Gun
• Tokarev TT-33
• Cane Knife

Trivia

• At 16 years old on average, the Khmer Rouge are the youngest warriors. However, at 50 years old, Pol Pot is tied with Saddam as the oldest warrior. This is also the only fight where both warriors were the same age. In real life, Pol Pot continued to execute and massacre his enemies as the Khmer Rouge leader as late as age 70, which would make Pol Pot the oldest active warrior.
• Since he sought to remake history in his own image, Pol Pot's Psychological Health X-Factor was ranked at 27 out of 100, the lowest number for any confirmed X Factor in a nonfictional warrior.
• Available for viewing on the official Deadliest Warrior website are cut tests examining the combatants' preferred methods of torture: Pol Pot's electrocution torture and Saddam Hussein's chemical bath.
• The Viet Cong, another communist warrior, assisted the Khmer Rouge during the Vietnam War until Cambodia was captured by Pol Pot. However border conflicts and tensions between the nations appeared after the end of the Vietnam War. In late 1978 the Vietnamese saw the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot as too hostile and invaded. Trained by the Vietcong and experienced by the Vietnam War, they easily overwhelmed the young, violently insane Khmer Rouge soldiers in combination with the Cambodian Genocide sending the nation into chaos. In only two weeks, the Khmer Rouge was removed from power and Pol Pot continued to fight with guerrilla tactics until his own soldiers betrayed and arrested him.
• The Khmer Rouge actually used every weapon that Saddam Hussein used on Deadliest Warrior. However the weapons chosen for Pol Pot were more common since the nearby Vietnam War used many older weapons and buying the newer weapons at a significant amount would cost too much for the poor nation of Cambodia.
• To this day, some suspect that Pol Pot's death was actually the result of poisoning by the Khmer Rouge holding him captive up to his death or that he poisoned himself rather than face trial. His body was cremated quickly after his death in spite of requests from the government to inspect it, so no autopsy was ever performed.