Celebrations heralding a communist takeover of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, soon turned ugly as the Khmer Rouge imposed their ...

The legacy of atrocity crimes that took the lives of millions of Cambodians during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, and the ...

On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power and overthrow are foundational to Cambodian People’s Party legitimacy, but memories fade.

Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi ...

One of history's most notorious mass murderers, his Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh 50 years ago on Thursday, and his ...

Pol Pot's legacy still casts a shadow over modern Cambodia Over the next four years, a quarter of the population died from exhaustion, starvation, disease, torture or through executions.

Anlong Veng (AFP) – A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian ...