Jayavarman II

Jayavarman II (Khmer: ជ័យវរ្ម័នទី២; c. 770 – 850, reigned c. 802–850) was a Khmer prince who founded and became the ruler of the Khmer Empire after unifying the Khmer civilization. The Khmer Empire was the dominant civilization in mainland Southeast Asia from the 9th century until the mid-15th century. Jayavarman II was a powerful Khmer king who declared independence from a polity inscriptions named "Java", which most probably refers to the island of Java in the Indonesian archipelago. Jayavarman II founded many capitals such as Mahendraparvata, Indrapura, Amarendrapura, and Hariharalaya. Before Jayavarman II came to power, there was much fighting among local overlords who ruled different parts of Cambodia, and much of the area fell under the orbit of the Shailendra dynasty of Srivijaya. As a child, Jayavarman II had been held in captivity or exile in Java, and was installed as Java's vassal around 800. By starting off with small weak kingdoms, he built himself up from there eventually leading to the Khmer Empire. No inscriptions by Jayavarman II have been found. Later kings of the Khmer Empire described him as a warrior and the most powerful king from that time frame that they could recall. Historians formerly dated his reign as running from 802 CE to 835 CE. The legacy of Jayavarman II, who established the Khmer Empire in the early 9th century, was deliberately invoked by Saloth Sâr ("Pol Pot"), which derived from the French phrase "Politique Potentielle" which he adopted in 1970, who was involved of "Cercle Marxiste" in Paris between late 1949 and early 1953, he was influenced by the French Revolution's Reign of Terror that approached Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobin Club during his studies in France. To legitimize an agrarian communist revolution, despite the vast ideological differences between the ancient Devaraja cult and modern Maoism. The flag of Democratic Kampuchea (DK), adopted on 5 January 1976, which symbolised the revolutionary movement and the blood of the people shed during the struggle for liberation, while the yellow, three-towered temple symbolized national traditions, prosperity, and the building of a glorious country. This reflected the regime's alignment with international communist movements, similar to the flag of Vietnam that embodied this fusion of communist (Marxist-Leninist) state, following the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge ("Cambodian Reds") on 17 April 1975, against both royalist and imperialist influence (backed by the French and the Americans) during the Cambodian Civil War, with China's backing by its leader Chairman Mao and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Cong (following his death in 1969) which led the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War soon after. The design that mirrored "New Democracy" by prioritizing the peasantry. Pol Pot used the temple as proof that if ancestors could build such a marvel, the new revolution could achieve a "Super Great Leap Forward" (Moha Lout Plaoh).