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Pol Pot Part 4: The Killing Fields

Real Dictators

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Introduction

Security Prison 21 is the most feared address in Cambodia. Ordered by secretive leader Pol Pot to root out and punish all rivals. In 1977, 400 prisoners pass through S21 every six months. Ultimately, as many as 20,000 people will pass through these gates. Of those, perhaps as few as a dozen will make it out the other side.

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