In response, Pol Pot insists that erasing the malign effects of Western imperialism and remaking a society requires harsh ...

Now 60, Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical regime alive in documentary, narrative and animated film. His 2013 feature The Missing Picture blended ...

First drawn to communism while studying in France during the 1950’s, Saloth Sar - better known as Pol Pot - is known as one of the most ruthless and despised leaders in modern history. This haunting ...

'I want to look monsters in the eye and ask why they murdered my family in Cambodia's Killing Fields' ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998. Only three of the defendants below have ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five years.

Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman who has died at age 100, stands accused by his critics of many things, but perhaps the most outlandish is that he bears responsibility for the killing ...

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

Back in Malai, Suong had described Nuon Chea to us as "Pol Pot's shadow." He was mostly known simply as Brother Number Two. To get by neighbors and the local security, we have to disguise that we ...

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 ...

But painful memories still endure of the murderous Khmer Rouge's time in power under the leadership of Pol Pot in the 1970s, when 2 million people – one-fourth of the population – died in the regime's ...