The new film “Meeting with Pol Pot” centers on three imagined French visitors to Democratic Kampuchea, the name for Cambodia during the savage communist regime of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

The systematic genocide of the innocent got bracketed as ‘killing fields’. Even in that era, that is pre-9/11, the hatred for Muslims was on the rise— 70-80% Cambodian Muslims were exterminated.

Samngath Meas, who with her husband, her parents and seven siblings survived the killing fields, died Sept. 14 at home after what her family called “a heroic fight” against uterine cancer.

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

Director Rithy Panh has chronicled Cambodia's horrors in many documentaries. His pivot to a drama starring Irène Jacob is marked by a similar sense of bearing witness.

Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan is pictured at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on 22 November 2011 Getty Nuon Chea, who was deputy to leader Pol Pot, is ...

It's been 50 years since the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took control of Cambodia in 1975, following a five-year civil war. Australia accepted several thousand Cambodian refugees from the late ...

The disgraced ex-pol Anthony Weiner leads a crowded field of City Council candidates. J.C. Rice “I’m trying to do a high-wire act blindfolded over a pond of angry alligators, you know?” he said.

News Devon News Exeter Exeter's bloody killing field where armies fought to the death At the height of the head-crunching action, musket shots, death cries and burning fires filled the air ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.