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Pol Pot Part 1: Tyrant in the Shadows
Who really was Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator who preferred to operate in the shadows?
Cambodia today is many people鈥檚 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.
