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 ...
Nate Thayer, an American journalist who chased stories of conflict across the jungles of Southeast Asia and was the last Western correspondent to interview the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal leader Pol Pot, ...
A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...
The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — He was one of the greatest mass killers of the 20th century, but that doesn’t stop the hopeful from praying at Pol Pot’s hillside grave for lucky lottery numbers, job ...
"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for Meeting with Pol Pot, a French drama made by acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker ...
Nate Thayer, the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot after tracking him in the jungles of Cambodia for nearly a decade, has died at his home in Falmouth, ...
PragerU last Monday released the sixth and final installment in its video series “The Hall of Evil,” which features commentary on six 20 th-century dictators. Narrated by Paul Kengor, professor of ...
Pol Pot, the murderous Khmer Rouge leader, died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old trash in Anlong Veng. Now Phnom Penh officials hope to turn that burned-out garbage pile--in the middle of a ...
Towards the beginning of this massive biography, Short cautions readers against dismissing the terror of Pol Pot's regime as the incomprehensible work of evil men ...
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" marked 30 years Wednesday since the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 ...
The former defense minister of Cambodia, Lon Nol, orchestrated the coup that toppled Prince Norodom Shanouk in 1970. Following Sihanouk's exit, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces freely entered Cambodia ...