First wife of Cambodian Dictator Pol Pot. She married Pol Pot in 1956. She was a member of the Khmer Rouge's inner circle during its heyday. She participated in her husband's Communist revolutionary activities from the 1950s, going underground in 1965 and serving as head of the national women's association when the Khmer Rouge was in power from 1975 to 1979. However, according to most accounts, she already showed signs of mental illness, especially paranoia, by the time Cambodia's civil war began in 1970. Pol Pot, who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge comrades, had separated from her in the 1980s and took a second, younger wife by whom he had a daughter. She was never told that Pol Pot died, nor was she aware that he married again, in 1985, and had a child from that marriage. She never remembered the Khmer Rouge, or that more than million people died during its disastrous reign. All of this as a result of her mental illness. Her date of birth is unknown at this time but was 83 at the time of her death.
First wife of Cambodian Dictator Pol Pot. She married Pol Pot in 1956. She was a member of the Khmer Rouge's inner circle during its heyday. She participated in her husband's Communist revolutionary activities from the 1950s, going underground in 1965 and serving as head of the national women's association when the Khmer Rouge was in power from 1975 to 1979. However, according to most accounts, she already showed signs of mental illness, especially paranoia, by the time Cambodia's civil war began in 1970. Pol Pot, who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge comrades, had separated from her in the 1980s and took a second, younger wife by whom he had a daughter. She was never told that Pol Pot died, nor was she aware that he married again, in 1985, and had a child from that marriage. She never remembered the Khmer Rouge, or that more than million people died during its disastrous reign. All of this as a result of her mental illness. Her date of birth is unknown at this time but was 83 at the time of her death.
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