ly thwarted the country (Pilger, 1998). With the support of the West, Pol Pot was actually able to maintain some power and access to a seat in the UN. He and the Khmer Rouge remained an active threat until 1998, at least partly because of the support of the United States, which then wanted to gain access to him to try him as a war criminal.
Pol Pot has variously been described as a Cambodian Stalin or Cambodian hitler. Chandler (1993) believed that he was more like an Asian Stalin, because he was a paranoid absolutist with Maoist leanings. He was more Maoist than conventional Marxist, borrowing from the cultural revolution of Mao.
There are different opinions about what motivated Pol Pot psychologically and
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