Pol Pot


 * Cambodian dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge
 * Murdered opponents in "killing fields"
 * Lost power after a failed 1975 invasion of Vietnam and was exiled to Thailand
 * Converted a high school into a prison where 20000 people were killed in the S-21 campaign
 * Declared a Year Zero and deindustrialized his country
 * Divided peasants into three "layers"
 * Committed suicide the day Voice of America broadcasted that his party would turn him over to international authorities
 * His party used the metaphor "pull up the grass, dig up the roots" when fighting opposition