Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime wiped out virtually all those, like Samy, who embodied and passed on the country’s dance tradition. The former dancer was dispatched, ...

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

Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime wiped out virtually all those, like Samy, who embodied and passed on the country’s dance tradition. The former dancer was dispatched, ...

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare By Phillip Short Henry Holt, 560 pp. $30 ...

Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot may not walk totally fresh ground for Panh, but there is real power in one filmmaker’s dedication to re-examining real world horror from many angles over many years.

Pol Pot died in 1998 near the Cambodia-Thai border, as disparate remnants of his regime continued to resist the government 20 years after it was toppled.

The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and ...

Communism. Pol Pot's Atrocities Still Matter, 45 Years After Khmer Rouge's Fall Like many horrors throughout history, they were rooted in radical ideas aimed at implementing some utopian vision.

And even in those earliest years, he says, it was clear how "completely committed" Thayer was to finding Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's brutal Communist regime from 1975 to 1979.