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

The former prime minister of Pol Pot’s genocidal regime has lost an appeal against a life sentence more than four decades after the Khmer Rouge was ousted from power.

He nods along vigorously to his interlocutors’ encomiums about their attempts to create “a new man,” and eagerly swallows the PR-friendly version of life under Pol Pot’s Year Zero brand of ...

'Pol Pot Dancing,' about the Cambodian dictator's effort to wipe out Khmer classical dance, ... “Comrade, you are the first person to hear my biography,” the man says with a warm laugh.

Rithy Pahn returns to Cannes with Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, ... “But this tragedy came into my life, ... Tom Hanks & Apple’s ‘Greyhound’ Sequel To Begin Filming Early 2026 ...

It was 1978, in Talien, Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge soldier came for my mother. An acquaintance had betrayed her, informing the Khmer Rouge leadership about her past as a teacher. Under Pol Pot ...

Rithy Panh dramatises a real-life event in this period thriller about three French journalists who travel to Cambodia to interview the Khmer ... (Pol Pot had studied in Paris in the early 1950s.) ...

45 years later: Pol Pot’s atrocities offer… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an ...