Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

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.

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

In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures. The project, ...

Pol Pot and his comrades fled into the jungle bordering Thailand; but they were not yet finished. Cold War America and the West refused to recognise communist Vietnam's government in Phnom Penh ...

communist society free from Western culture. At least one million or even up to three million people died during Pol Pot’s regime of only four years. While some were reportedly tortured and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...

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 ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out ...