His 1996 documentary Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy ... real photographs from the Killing Fields, and there is no denying their impact. Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot may not walk totally fresh ground ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Thirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything private, right down to his subjects' thoughts ...

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ... of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998.

Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures. The project, ...

The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...

The government under Pol Pot also interfered with Vietnam not only leading to border disputes but also the fall of the brutal regime. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 and established its ...

Back in America I had spoken with Nate Thayer, one of the most prominent journalists reporting on Cambodia. Thayer was the only reporter to interview pol pot in two decades. He was also the only ...

A man who was born in the “killing fields” of Cambodia during Pol Pot’s rule and a genocide that killed more than 1 million ...

In addition, he said, Pol Pot continued to believe that the Khmer Rouge could conquer Cambodia again. Pol Pot’s views could not have been further from the truth. “Almost as soon as Vietnam had ...