#7 Top Dictator : Pol Pot (1.7M deaths)
Channel: ConvCat
Date: 2022-11-27

BREAKDOWN
Forced city folk to relocate to farms and forced them into hard labor.

Pol Pot was the leader of the communist movement in Cambodia. He attempted to “cleanse” the country and it resulted in the death of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people. There was an interesting policy going around called agrarian collectivization which he put into practice in the late 1970’s. Basically it forced city folk to head out to the farms to do some labor and vice versa for farmers. As you might guess, and hindsight is 20/20, neither group was very good at their new jobs. Pol didn’t stop at enslaving his own people though. He also didn’t feed them well, gave them little medical care, and executed many of them. The net result was killing off approximately 1/5 of the Cambodian population!

Original source text: https://www.readjuancarlos.com/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

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