pol
Noun
Meaning
a person active in party politics
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Loyalty is not a small thing. I'm an old Irish pol. No loyalty is owed, if no loyalty was given.
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.