When Khmer Rouge came to power after a bloody civil war in which 600,000 people died, the cities were evacuated; economic ...

Already on May 20, 1975, Pol Pot emphasised the need to “carefully screen” the new regime’s subjects, ... There were, as a result, no re-education camps in Cambodia – only killing fields.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Nate Thayer, the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot after tracking him in the jungles of Cambodia for nearly a decade, has died at his home in ...