Forty years ago, Pol Pot’s brutal regime in Cambodia fell from power — but it left behind lasting scars. The Khmer Rouge, a hardline-communist command, terrorized the Southeast Asian country from 1975 ...

Exclusive: Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh returns with a project about journalists who began to question the country's most infamous leader. Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy ...

The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...

Some names should never be lost to history, and Pol Pot's is one of them. He was the leader of one of the most ruthless communist regimes in history (and that's saying something), the Khmer Rouge, ...

A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...

The latest evidence at Cambodia’s landmark trial offers some grisly insights into how the Khmer Rouge operated during Pol Pot’s reign. Cambodia is enduring a controversial period. The recent murder of ...

Between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 17 million people in Cambodia A quarter of the population were wiped out in one of the most brutal ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal refused bail to former Khmer Rouge minister Ieng Thirith on Wednesday, saying she had to stay in jail for her own safety and to "preserve ...

In an excellent exploratory piece by Graeme Woods in The Atlantic this month, he notes in passing the similarities between ISIS and the Khmer Rouge. It’s a worthy comparison – further highlighted by ...

Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...

Phnom Penh, Sept. 2 (efe_epa).Phnom Penh, Sept. 2 (efe_epa). — The punishment for not wanting to consummate a forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia was rape, recounts a witness at ...

“All the power was concentrated in the hands of the secretariat of the communist party, Pol Pot and Nuon Chea.” Duch said Nuon Chea replaced Son Sen in 1977 as head of Santebal – the Khmer Rouge ...