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

Known as "Brother Number Two," Nuon Chea was considered Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's right hand man. He held a number of positions during the regime's rule, including a short stint as acting prime ...

Now 60, Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical regime alive in documentary, narrative and animated film. His 2013 feature The Missing Picture blended ...

Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge regime which was responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians, died on April 15, 1998, in Anlong Veng. Following his death, his body was cremated near ...

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.

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

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 ...

Thayer was the only reporter to interview pol pot in two decades ... the longtime public image of the regime. As we pull into the compound where Nuon Chea lives, the first of three security ...

Under a policy of completely denying capitalism, the Pol Pot regime forced a large portion of the urban population to migrate to rural areas and engage in farming to increase agricultural ...

A United Nations-backed special tribunal charged with prosecuting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was led by Pol Pot and ruled Cambodia in the late 1970s, recently held its final ...