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Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1963 to 1997.Among his many atrocities, he ordered the evacuation of the entire city of Phnom Penh because he felt threatened by the capitalist practices of the urban Cambodians. These urbanites were "deposited" into communes in the countryside where they could be more easily controlled and given rations of two bowls of rice soup per day. Hundreds of thousands were led out in shackles to dig a mass grave for themselves, then buried alive by Khmer soldiers because, as Pol Pot declared, "Bullets are not to be wasted." Killing FieldsHis goal was to build an agricultural-based socialist utopia. However, he boasted that only 1 million or 2 million people would be necessary for this, much less than the 8 million population of Cambodia, and happily destroyed many "unnecessary" people.Pol Pot also did his best to centralize control over food production and consumption by burning villagers out of their farms and exporting as much rice as possible while denying the food to his people and refusing outside humanitarian aid.Most estimates place the number of people killed by the Khmer Rouge between 1.7 million and 2.2 million, with about half killed directly by execution and the other half by starvation or malnutrition. The Khmer Rouge themselves claimed about 2 million deaths, while UNICEF placed the number higher at 3 million, or almost 40% of the population, including several hundred thousand people who died after the Khmer Rouge had been ousted from power in 1979.After some eastern Cambodians rebelled, Pol Pot announced plans to purify the lands of not only 1.5 million more Cambodians but also the 50 million Vietnamese behind them. Vietnam took this as their cue to crush the regime out of self-defense. Pol Pot retreated with his remaining supporters to the Thailand border and lived there with the support of the Thai military, who wanted to keep the Khmer Rouge active in west Cambodia as a buffer against the Vietnamese.The Vietnamese didn't eradicate the Khmer Rouge stronghold until 1985, at which time Pol Pot fled to Thailand. However, when Vietnam withdrew from Cambodia in 1989, Pol Pot returned and rebuilt his support in the west, continuing to fight with the new government until 1996. At this time, his troops began to desert him. Even then, he executed close friends and family members who he viewed as traitors. He was finally arrested by the Khmr Rouge military chief Ta Mok in June 1997 for the execution of his lifelong right-hand man, Son Sen, and sentenced to house arrest, where he died at home less than a year later in April 1998 of heart failure.Very few in history have worked so hard to exterminate their own people and been so successful at it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

The doctrine of “Procedure established by law” originated in the British constitution. This confers limited powers in the hands of the judiciary. If the arrest & detention of a person & his deprivation of life and liberty is challenged before a court of law:- Court will apply the following 3 testsWhether there exists any law that deprives an individual of his life or liberty.Whether the legislature that enacted the law in question had the competence to enact such a law.Whether the legislature while enacting the law followed the procedure prescribed under the law.If any of the law fails, the court will extend protection to the individual against the arbitrary action of the executive. However, if all the above 3 tests are found to be valid, the court will not apply a fourth test whether the law in question is fair, just & reasonable, while depriving an individual of his life or liberty. Even if the court finds the law to be arbitrary or oppressive it will not declare the law unconstitutional & void & extend protection to the individual.This doctrine believes more on the good sense of the legislature and on the strength of the public opinion in the country. It gives protection to the life & liberty of an individual only against of ‘Executive’ and not against that of ‘legislature’.The doctrine of “Due process of law” originated under the US constitution. This doctrine confers wider power in the hands of the judiciary. In a similar situation as described above, the court will not only apply the above 3 tests but it will also look at the law from the broader perspective of “inherent goodness” of law by applying the principle of natural justice and examine whether the law in itself is fair just and reasonable. If the court finds the law to be arbitrary or oppressive, it will declare the law to be unconstitutional and void and extend protection to the individual against the arbitrary action of both Legislature and Executive.