Pol Pot

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

The Vietnamese never asked themselves, any more than had the French, whether the Cambodians wanted the new system they were introducing. They acted in the unassailable certitude of a superior truth.

The Vietnamese never asked themselves, any more than had the French, whether the Cambodians wanted the new system they were introducing. They acted in the unassailable certitude of a superior truth.

To destroy you is no loss, to preserve you is no gain.

To destroy you is no loss, to preserve you is no gain.

When the water is high, the fish eat the ants. When the water recedes, the ants eat the fish.

When the water is high, the fish eat the ants. When the water recedes, the ants eat the fish.

Those who go back first will sleep on cots. Those who go back last will sleep on graves.

Those who go back first will sleep on cots. Those who go back last will sleep on graves.

To say that millions died is too much.

To say that millions died is too much.

The babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes, I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake of when we put our plan into practice.

The babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes, I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake of when we put our plan into practice.

To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.

We are building a new society, without rich or poor, without exploitation.

The Cambodian people are a pure and clean people.

It is better to kill ten innocent people than to let one enemy escape.

We will smash the old society to build a new one.