Pol Pot was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976-1979. During Pol Pot's reign in power, he wanted to turn Cambodia into an agrarian place. Pol Pot forced the citizens to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor jobs. Pol Pot's goal was to ''restart civilization''.
In the year 1979, after the invasion of Cambodia by neighboring Vietnam in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Pol Pot retreated into the jungles of southwest Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge collapsed.
Pol Pot died in 1998 while held under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge. since his death, rumors that he was poisoned have persisted.
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