Real Dictators

Pol Pot Part 1: Tyrant in the Shadows

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Cambodia today is many people’s idea of heaven on earth. But in the 1970s it was a netherworld of death and despair. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, in just four years around a quarter of the population perished. Pol Pot was a uniquely anonymous dictator - a man who preferred to operate in the shadows. So who was he? And how did he come to lead such a staggeringly bloody regime?

A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith.

This is Part 1 of 4.

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