Between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 17 million people in Cambodia A quarter of the population were wiped out in one of the most brutal ...

The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...

Some names should never be lost to history, and Pol Pot's is one of them. He was the leader of one of the most ruthless communist regimes in history (and that's saying something), the Khmer Rouge, ...

Exclusive: Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh returns with a project about journalists who began to question the country's most infamous leader. Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...

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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal refused bail to former Khmer Rouge minister Ieng Thirith on Wednesday, saying she had to stay in jail for her own safety and to "preserve ...

The Khmer Rouge's interrogator-in-chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his alias Duch, died Wednesday in Cambodia's capital at the age of 77. The former teacher ran a notorious prison for the regime, ...

He was seen as a chief architect of the regime's brutal collectivist policies that led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people. He was found... Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant ...

For most of her life, Sambo Ly didn’t talk about the horrors she faced as a child under the Khmer Rouge. But now, "I use that trauma to heal" ...

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 Falmouth, ...