Some will pick Pol Pot of Cambodia who reigned1976–1978. He:
- Killed more people in proportion to the size of the nation than any other dictator
- Killed most people in shortest timeframe
- Destroyed the economy of Cambodia
- Destroyed the intelligentsia of Cambodia
- Effectively rendered Cambodia back to the Bronze Age
- Destroyed the infrastructure of Cambodia
- Caused a man-made famine in Cambodia
- Obliterated literacy in Cambodia
- Deurbanized and deindustrialized the country completely
- Sowed the land full of land mines, making 30% of the fields of Cambodia uncultivable
- Founded the largest extermination camps ever and coined the concept “killing fields”.
