Pol Pot ~ A Bad
Leader
Ny’Ashia Boxx
, Background Info
● Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, was born on April 17, 1925, in the small village of Prek
Sbauv, Cambodia.
● His family was relatively wealthy, owning about 50 acres of rice paddy, or roughly 10 times
the national average.
● In 1934, Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh and studied at a Buddhist monastery for a year.
● During 1949, he moved to Paris on a scholarship. It was there that he studied radio
technology and got involved in communism.
● When Pol Pot returned to Cambodia in January 1953, the whole region was revolting
against French colonial rule. Cambodia officially gained its independence from France later
that year.
Leader
Ny’Ashia Boxx
, Background Info
● Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, was born on April 17, 1925, in the small village of Prek
Sbauv, Cambodia.
● His family was relatively wealthy, owning about 50 acres of rice paddy, or roughly 10 times
the national average.
● In 1934, Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh and studied at a Buddhist monastery for a year.
● During 1949, he moved to Paris on a scholarship. It was there that he studied radio
technology and got involved in communism.
● When Pol Pot returned to Cambodia in January 1953, the whole region was revolting
against French colonial rule. Cambodia officially gained its independence from France later
that year.
