In absolute terms, Pol Pot was a piker compared to Stalin and Mao, but on a percentage basis, he and the Khmer Rouge were no slouches.
"He ran the country for less than four years, yet between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot killed up to a fifth—some think a quarter—of the 7m Cambodian people to whom he said he was bringing a new and better life..."
"He ran the country for less than four years, yet between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot killed up to a fifth—some think a quarter—of the 7m Cambodian people to whom he said he was bringing a new and better life..."