I am Pol Pot

In this novel, in the 1970s turbulence of the Vietnam War, and protests by students and youth who where un-willing to fight for a cause that seemed unwinable. President Richard Nixon spread the Vietnam War to Kampuchea, (called Cambodia today) and not only caused outrage and protest at home, including the Kent State Ohio massacres, but also threw Kampuchea into a state of civil war and out of that emerged Pol Pot. Nixon's inept handling of the situation brought about one of the strangest social experiment of the 20th Century. Pol Pot ruled Kampuchea through a committee known for the first two years only as the Ankar (organization). His name was not even spoken to the Kampuchean people. His Communist Party of Kampuchea had amassed a powerful movement of disenfranchised peasants, who were loyal to him and his regime. The Residence of Phnom Penh, the city’s capital, were not so lucky. They were treated with suspicion. And punishment for those deemed “un-redeemable” was harsh. This is Pol Pot's story.