The Cambodian people never knew that in March 1976 nationwide ‘elections’ were said to have been held and that a people’s representative assembly of 150 members had existed since then. Pol Pot was ‘chosen’ as a ‘representative’ of the rubber-planation workers.’ Even in the long history of elections without choice in communist countries, there exists on precedent for an election held without the knowledge of the elections. In fact, in the nearly four years of Khmer Rouge rule, Cambodian were unaware of the existence of a government or administration. These was no currency. There was no school system, expect for some vocational-training institutions, in which children of trusted ‘old people’ received a minimal education while they learned how to operate simple machines. ‘the ignorant have become an honorable and inviolable class,’ said Seng Horl. ‘Ignorance is good for the country, they believe. Our children learn only to work, and most of the work they do is gathering dung and digging ditches.’