Most significant positive evidence
No material positive conduct of comparable ethical significance was verified within the assessed period. Claimed agrarian equality was implemented through coercion, deprivation and mass killing.
Person
Pol Pot
Leader of the Khmer Rouge regime. The assessment covers forced evacuation, forced labour, starvation, persecution, torture, mass execution and genocide from 1975 to 1979.
A completed public ethical assessment is available below.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-99.00
Reasoned summary
The available evidence places the regime at or near the most destructive pole in every assessed domain. Verified genocide activates the lowest possible severe-harm limit.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The evidence concerns genocide, forced evacuation, forced labour, starvation, destruction of family and cultural life, torture, execution and extreme ideological control.
Read the full Pol Pot ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -98.00
- Rights and dignity
- -100.00
- Nonviolence and harm
- -98.00
- Stewardship of power
- -100.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -98.00
- Consequential legacy
- -100.00
- Severe-harm record
- Extreme
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Pol Pot (1975–1979)
1975–1979 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile