4. SALOTH SAR
More commonly known as Pol Pot. Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, he is the only man in history known to have ordered a genocide against the entire country, killing about 3 million Cambodians in his rule of four years. He and his group, Khmer Rouge, took it upon him to bring ‘civilization’ to Cambodia. They shut down almost all the schools and ordered an evacuation. During his tenure, Pol has been credited with ordering the people, no matter what age, gender, class, and even pregnant women, to work in fields during the rainy the rainy season, standing in neck-deep water. As a result, their hands and feet would swell-up and bleed. People had no right to eat, and of found eating, they were flogged and even beaten to death. Pol had numerous babies killed, many of them literally “torn limb-by-limb”. Prisoners were forced to drink human urine. To top it all, Pol liked keeping the skulls of his victims, and their lives were of no value at all to him.
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