>be born into wealthy, land owning farming family
>go get educated in france
>hang out with french communists in college
>come back to cambodia
>start communist revolution, try to overthrow king of cambodia
>succeed in a roundabout way after a different group overthrows the king and then you ally with the king to overthrow them
>we communism
>empty out cities
>send everyone living in cities to farm
>expect random farmers to be able to lead dozens of completely inexperienced people in how to farm
>start killing off people who are land owners
>or wear glasses
>or have a foreign education
>note that all three of these applied to pol pot
>or are vietnamese, in spite of vietnam being a coaligned communist country that was instrumental in you taking power
>like killing them so much you start going over into vietnam to kill tens of thousands of civilians for no military purpose
>start a pogrom against chinese living in cambodia, basically call them money grubbing jews
>china is also providing 90% of the foreign aid to cambodia and trying to prop up its collapsing economy
>kill 25% of your total population
>10% of them were from famine, the remaining 15% were directly killed by the government
>military is random gangs of peasants riding around killing each other
>eventually be such a shithole (and kill so many vietnamese) that vietnam invades you and overthrows your government
>live until 1998 hanging out in the jungle, doing what you do best by periodically killing a village full of people trying to restart the revolution
What the FUCK was this guy's problem?