The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.

A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand, Rithy Panh’s “Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot ... of Communist thought, and of probing curiosity as to Pot’s contortion ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Zhou, the leader of a country that came under communist rule before Cambodia ... Under a policy of completely denying capitalism, the Pol Pot regime forced a large portion of the urban population ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through ... that bans statements denying crimes by the communist Khmer Rouge and carries a sentence of up ...

Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, the group stayed in power until 1979, when it was ousted by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam. By that time, the radical policies of the group are ...

Driven by an extreme communist credo, the Pol Pot regime forced urban residents to migrate to rural areas and engage in farming. In the process, the Khmer Rouge allegedly caused the deaths of an ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer ...

Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, the group stayed in power until 1979, when it was ousted by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam. By that time, the radical policies of the group are ...