>more US bombs dropped on Cambodian farmland than all munitions ever dropped during ww2
>no food
>forced to send people to labor camps to make enough food
>kill people who do not produce food because they're useless
>be a bit of a psychopath, some happenings occurred at your prisons
>kill Vietnamese people for no reason
>get invaded by Vietnam because you killed Vietnamese people
>government falls
>get blamed for the life expectancy dropping to 18 anyways
Seriously how would it not fall to 18 under anyone
Bad dude but Cambodia starving and a fourth of the population dying literally wasnt even his fault. Blame fucking kissinger for that bit. It was a medieval shithole because we completely destroyed it and left it to him lol
The actual litmus test which never happened would be how democratic kampuchea would be if it actually lasted
It turns into more of a political shitshow when you realize that Vietnam and the ussr fucking hated this dude and that China, the UK, and the USA were funding his government in exile
But regardless, the killing fields? His fault. Famine? Not his fault. The evacuation of the cities? Practically a necessity. Forced labor? Necessary evil. Fourth of the population dying? Not his fault. 18 year life expectancy? Not his fault
One of Pot's actions I could get behind was when he swept up the 'intellectuals' and made them work in the fields, tending crops.
Who *wouldn't* like to see squads of gender-studies grads, "tech-evangelists" and marketing majors marching out each morning to do manual labor that actually *produced something useful*?