Bishop Mixa recently called average kindergardens "reeducation camps." In a reaction, Roth called Mixa Pol Pot. Pol Pot had sth from Rousseau´s "back on the trees."
POL POT
Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), aliases Pol, Pouk, Hay, Grand-Uncle, First Brother, '87', Phem, '99', and best known as Pol Pot[1], was the leader of the communist movement called Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially renamed the Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization where city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects, also known as restarting civilization back to "Year Zero." The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions had an estimated death toll from 750,000 to 1.7 million.[2][3] His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other "bourgeois enemies" for murder.
In 1979, he fled into the jungles of North West Cambodia after an invasion by neighbouring Vietnam which led to the collapse of the Khmer Rouge government. Pol Pot was never brought to justice, although he was overthrown and imprisoned by other Khmer Rouge leaders, and succumbed to natural causes in 1998 while under house arrest.
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