His 1996 documentary Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy ... real photographs from the Killing Fields, and there is no denying their impact. Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot may not walk totally fresh ground ...
Thirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything private, right down to his subjects' thoughts ...
Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...
North Vietnam annexed the South, ending a decade of conflict but in Cambodia the arrival of the Khmer Rouge resulted in disaster. Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage ...
Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ... of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998.
Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...
'I want to look monsters in the eye and ask why they murdered my family in Cambodia's Killing Fields' ...
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.
Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...
Back in America I had spoken with Nate Thayer, one of the most prominent journalists reporting on Cambodia. Thayer was the only reporter to interview pol pot in two decades. He was also the only ...
In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...