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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...
Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...
François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...
North Vietnam annexed the South, ending a decade of conflict but in Cambodia the arrival of the Khmer Rouge resulted in disaster. Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage ...
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.
'I want to look monsters in the eye and ask why they murdered my family in Cambodia's Killing Fields' ...
The timing could not be more spot on for "Meeting With Pol Pot," Cambodian filmmaker Rithy ... Paul ventures away from the ...
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 ...
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 ...