The video details Pol Pot’s rise to power, from his collegiate studies in France—where he was radicalized by communist ideology—to his return to Cambodia with a quest to lead the political ...

Pol Pot, whose real name was Saloth Sar ... By 1966 we find Saloth Sar forging the revolutionary Communist Party of Kampuchea, the CPK, in opposition to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's monarchy.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of such a catastrophic episode in Cambodia’s long history invites one to understand how the communist leader Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime was finally ...

Remarkbly, decades later that very boy would become a Communist revolutionary and assume the name Pol Pot. Samy was not only a sister-in-law to Saloth Sâr but effectively his foster mother.

when Communist Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop those atrocities, the United States openly backed Pol Pot to make trouble for Vietnam and its Soviet patron. ” But one thing that has literally ...

As the head of state of Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea, Samphan, 91, was the international face of the communist regime, which was responsible for up to 1.7mn deaths, almost a quarter of the ...

Communist regimes at one point controlled 30 ... the devastation from the 1970s still permeates the nation's politics. After Pol Pot was deposed, the country fell into a civil war that lasted ...

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.