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The reverse side features an ancient Greek marble statue of a discus-thrower, Discobolus, portraits of athletes and the numeral "2008", the bank said.
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The notes, to be circulated publicly, break the almost decade-long grip Mao has held on the country's currency.
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The communist leader has starred on all notes from small to large since 1999.
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During Mao's 1949-1976 rule banknotes generally featured workers, farmers, symbols of modernisation such as trucks or planes, and mountain or pagoda scenes.
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Mao first appeared on a banknote 14 years after his death, on a 100 yuan bill issued in 1990, along with three other leaders.
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Seven new notes bearing his image on one side and backdrops such as Tibet's Potala palace and the Three Gorges area on the other, were issued in 1999, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.
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Debate flares periodically about removing Mao from the notes, but no serious moves have been made recently.
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In 2006 delegates to the country's parliament, the National People's Congress, proposed Mao make room for other leaders such as economic reformer Deng Xiaoping and Sun Yat-sen, considered the "father" of modern China.
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During his time in power Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization whereby city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects with the goal of restarting civilization in "Year Zero". The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions had an estimated death toll of 750,000 to 1.7 million (approximately 26% of the population at that time).
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n 1979, he fled into the jungles of southwest Cambodia after an invasion by neighboring Vietnam, which led to the collapse of the Khmer Rouge government. In 1997, Pol Pot was overthrown and imprisoned by other Khmer Rouge leaders. He died in 1998 while under house arrest.
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Pol Pot was born in Prek Sbauv in Kampong Thom Province in 1925 to a moderately wealthy family of Chinese-Khmer descent. n 1935, he left Prek Sbauv to attend the École Miche, a Catholic school in Phnom Penh. As his sister Roeung was a concubine of the king, he often visited the royal palace.
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After switching to a technical school at Russey Keo, north of Phnom Penh, he qualified for a scholarship that allowed for technical study in France. He studied radioelectricity at the EFR in Paris from 1949 to 1953. He also participated in an international labour brigade building roads in Yugoslavia in 1950. After the Soviet Union recognized the Viet Minh as the government of Vietnam in 1950, French Communists (PCF) took up the cause of Vietnam's independence. The PCF's anti-colonialism attracted many young Cambodians, including Pol Pot. In 1951, he joined a communist cell in a secret organization known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Student's Association (AER) that same year. Within a few months, Pol Pot also joined the PCF. Historian Philip Short has said that Pol Pot's poor academic record was a considerable advantage within the anti-intellectual PCF, who saw uneducated peasants as the true proletariat and helped him to quickly establish a leadership role for himself among the Cercle Marxiste.
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As a result of failing his exams in three successive years, he was forced to return to Cambodia in January 1954. He was the first member of the Cercle to return to Cambodia and was given the task of evaluating the various groups rebelling against the government. He recommended the Khmer Viet Minh, and in August 1954, Pol Pot along with Rath Samoeun travelled to the Viet Minh Eastern Zone headquarters in the village of Krabao at the Kompong Cham/Prey Veng border area of Cambodia.
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Pol Pot and the others found that the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was little more than a Vietnamese front organization. In 1954, the Cambodians at the Eastern Zone Headquarters split into two groups. Due to the Geneva peace accord of 1954 expelling all Viet Minh forces and insurgent, one group followed the Vietnamese back to Vietnam as cadres to be used by Vietnam in a future war to liberate Cambodia. The other group, including Pol Pot, returned to Cambodia.