Pol Pot, the diabolical mastermind of Cambodia’s “killing fields” genocide in the 1970s, apparently has died of a heart attack hours after the last of his Khmer Rouge guerrillas offered to ...

I began my tour of the Cambodian “killing fields” by visiting Tuol Sleng, the death prison known as S-21, in Phnom Penh.I walked through each of the tiny rooms and cells in buildings A, B, C ...

1925: Saloth Sar, alias Pol Pot, born in central Cambodia. 1949: Pol Pot goes to Paris where he joins a group of young Cambodian revolutionaries, most of them Marxists. 1953: France grants ...

Tourists visit a Killing Fields grave site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian residents arrive on the Eastern Bank of the Mekong River as they flee fighting Sept. 21, 1973.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — One of the most reviled figures of the century, the fugitive Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, surrendered to his former comrades yesterday, a clandestine rebel broadcast sai… ...

Sokha Ten Meyer was 23, married to a Cambodian army officer and the mother of two children in 1975 when Phnom Penh, her country’s capital, fell to the Khmer Rouge. The city’s entire pop… ...

The Constitutional Council yesterday approved Khmer Rouge trials, opening the way for a hybrid crimes tribunal.

The true story of Pol Pot’s background – his formative years at Cambodia’s royal court and how his foster mother, a dancer at that court, raised him – emerges in Sánchez Lansch’s film ...

Rithy Panh's return to the Killing Fields with Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot, ... His 1996 documentary Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy also adapted an excerpt of her experience.