Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in …

Photographs from Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison. all photographs © the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide

Their jailers kept meticulous records, taking black-and-white mug shots of prisoners on entry, and used electric shocks, beatings, and water poured in the nose to extract elaborate written …

Oct 26, 2007 · Last month an international tribunal arrested and charged a second Khmer Rouge figure, who is now being held with Duch in a detention center. He is Nuon Chea, 82, the …

Oct 23, 1997 · SHANGHAI — Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader who presided over Cambodia’s “killing fields” in the late 1970s, is dying--without acknowledging remorse or responsibility for …

Besides exhibiting Diane Arbus and Edward Weston, says Kismaric, the museum has in the past displayed criminal mug shots and photojournalist Gilles Peress’s documentary shots of the …

Apr 20, 1998 · Except for the occasional flickering of a wrist, Pol Pot remained motionless as he laid out his worst-case scenario, bragging that he would convince the US, Europe and most of …

Nov 9, 2009 · Pol Pot was a political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died …

Analysing several cases (the filming in the Warsaw ghetto in the Spring of 1942, the identifying mug shots by the Khmer rouge police during the Pol Pot regime, the Abu Ghraib pictures and...

Jan 25, 2025 · Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia responsible for the deaths of more than one million Cambodians. His radical communist …