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 ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

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 said.

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Anlong Veng, Cambodia — — A muddy, weed-choked field in the hills of northern Cambodia is the last resting place of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, chief instigator of a ...