Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge government implemented policies—forced labor, resettlements, torture, starvation—that led to the death of 1.7-to-3 million people, or at least ...

"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for ...

It’s been turned into a haunting thriller: Rendezvous avec Pol Pot is the original French title. Until recently I feared the ...

Exclusive: Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh returns with a project about journalists who began to question the ...

The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998. Only three of the defendants below have ...

For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, faced trial on charges ...

After being ousted from power in 1979, the Khmer Rouge waged guerrilla warfare for another two decades before disintegrating. Pol Pot died in the jungle in 1998, and on Dec. 24 of that year ...

Between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 17 million people in Cambodia A quarter of the population were wiped out in one of the most ...

Though best known as a documentarian, Panh’s latest work, “Meeting with Pol Pot,” is a fictionalized story that examines the Khmer Rouge from the point of view of journalists covering the war.