Stop telling lies about me!

VLEEPTRON NOTE: Sometimes we use RED to indicate Socialists or Communists. But today, RED is the color of human blood.

Pol Pot (19 May 1925 - ? 15 April 1998) was the Cambodian guerilla leader whose Khmer Rouge seized control of the Southeast Asian nation and ruled it with stark terror and genocide until the army of neighboring Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 and ousted the Khmer Rouge, sending Pol Pot and the remnants of his Khmer Rouge to hide in the jungle, where he died, a sick 73-year-old man imprisoned under house arrest by his own Khmer Rouge.

The United States government was still so outraged that the Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had defeated the world's most powerful military and sent us fleeing from Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in 1974 that when the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia to liberate it from the Khmer Rouge genocidists, the government of the USA (as distinguished from the American People) publicly supported and defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

During the Khmer Rouge years, Khmer Rouge soldiers regularly murdered everyone they found wearing or possessing eyeglasses -- the mark of possible intellectuals. Often these victims were farmers who could neither read nor write.

On 2 April 1998 Pol Pot gave his last interview to a Cambodian journalist, Samkhom Pin. What follows is from where it was instantly and forever tattooed on my memory; I can't find a transcript of the last interview on the Web. Among other things, Pol Pot said:

They say we killed two million people. That is a lie. Maybe two hundred thousand. Maybe that many. But it is a lie that we killed two million people.

From Wikipedia's article about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge:

Using Amnesty International's figure of 1.4 million deaths, about 20 percent of [Cambodia's] population would have died between 1975 and 1978.