PragerU’s final installment of "The Hall of Evil" video series explores the reign of Pol Pot, detailing his radical communist ...

The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.

Nancy is a former consultant to energy giants such as Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron. She traveled the world and often visited her sister, Sally, and her husband, Larry Burk. Both were life-long ...

Lon Nol fled to Hawaii in exile when the Communists seized power in Cambodia in 1975. The architect of the genocidal slaughter of two million of his own people, Pol Pot (a meaningless pseudonym ...

T he timing could not be more spot on for "Meeting With Pol Pot," Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's quiet, powerful drama ...

The sister-in-law of Pol Pot, leng Thirith was educated in Paris ... The couple returned to Cambodia in 1957, where Ieng Thirith established an English-language high school.

In addition, he said, Pol Pot continued to believe that the Khmer Rouge could conquer Cambodia again. Pol Pot’s views could not have been further from the truth. “Almost as soon as Vietnam had ...

As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in ...

Next, expand student understanding of the rule of the Khmer Rouge by watching the story "Cambodia: Pol Pot's Shadow" (about 24 minutes long). Help students focus their viewing by asking them to ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...

Ponheary Ly was the daughter of a teacher who was killed during the Cambodian genocide from 1965 to 1979. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, tried to create an agrarian socialist republic by ...