Already on May 20, 1975, Pol Pot emphasised the need to “carefully screen” the new regime’s subjects, taking “measures so that people were pure”.

On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...

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.

Rithy Panh has dedicated the lion’s share of his career to interrogating the genocidal Khmer Rouge era in his native Cambodia, and it is no trivial obsession. Panh fled Phnom Penh when he was just 11, ...

Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot may not walk totally fresh ground for Panh, but there is real power in one filmmaker’s dedication to re-examining real world horror from many angles over many years.

For the Sake of All Living Things By John M. Del Vecchio Bantam, 790 pages, $19.95 The evils that have befallen Cambodia over the last 20-odd years-especially the genocidal madness of Pol Pot and h… ...

Pol Pot constructs a secretive one-party state. Cambodia descends into hell as his twisted social experiment begins. Finally, the shifting sands of geopolitics will create challenges for the Khmer ...

For three years and eight months, he was enslaved, starved and tortured by Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Then he came to America and made history as the first native-born Cambodian ...

In the name of establishing an agrarian utopia, Pol Pot's genocidal revolution sent between 1 to 3 million Cambodians to their deaths in the notorious "killing fields" — one of the greatest ...