Disease was no longer the principal threat to military forces. Prior to World War I, however, advances in technology increased weapon lethality. During the war, the number of casualties from combat wounds began to approach the number of disease and nonbattle injuries. In World War II, for the first time, battle casualties exceeded disease casualties.
Pom Klementieff. Pom Klementieff. Pom Klementieff (born 3 May 1986) is a Canadian-born French actress born in Quebec City, Quebec. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris and has appeared in such films as Loup (2009), Sleepless Night (2011) and Hackerâs Game (2015).
Synopsis. Cambodian communist leader of the Khmer Rouge Pol Pot was born on May 19, 1925 (some sources say 1928) in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia. He was suspected of killing thousands of civilians during his reign. Mass graves he commanded his people to dig were often referred to as The Killing Fields..ol Pot-Mini Biography (TV-14; 2:14) A short biography of Pol Pot, the communist leader of Khmer Rouge, who tried to rebuild Cambodia as an Agrarian society. Many civilians were systematically killed, then buried in mass graves, known as The Killing Fields.