The museum of the killing fields of the red Khmer or khmer rouge outside the city of Phnom Penh of Cambodia. Cambodia, Phnom Penh | DPST/Newscom Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

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

Rithy Panh’s latest dissection of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime follows reporters seeking an audience with its brutal leader. The trio of visiting colleagues here are French: Irène Jacob, as ...

Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity by a Cambodian court and sentenced to life in prison. Nuon Chea, who was deputy to the infamous Pol Pot, and Khieu ...

Meeting with Pol Pot, Irene Jacob (Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three ...

PAILIN, Cambodia — They have the blood of millions staining their souls, but for Christian missionaries that just makes the Khmer Rouge veterans better prospects for conversion. The ultra-Maoists’ ...

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia’s remote reaches, each with a chronicle of the horror-soaked years in which Pol Pot and his Communist disciples ...

Alexis HONTANG and Suy SE AFP Apr 13, 2025 Apr 13, 2025 Updated Apr 14, 2025 A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a ...

Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down on a “goodwill” visit, which irritated many, given it ...

Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...