Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged.

“THE trial of the century” is how some lawyers already view the prospective prosecution of Cambodia's former tyrant, Pol Pot, before an international tribunal for genocide. If it ever happens. The ...

Rithy Pahn returns to Cannes with Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, his continuing journey to process and unpack the horrors of the genocide in his home country of Cambodia enacted by the Khmer Rouge regime.

ANLONG VENG, CambodiaANLONG VENG, Cambodia — He was one of the greatest mass killers of the 20th century, but that doesn’t stop the hopeful from praying at Pol Pot’s hillside grave for lucky lottery ...

The timing could not be more spot on for "Meeting With Pol Pot," Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...

"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for Meeting with Pol Pot, a French drama made by acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Cambodian artist Oeur Sokuntevy, 25, was born after the atrocities of ...

On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched into the Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh, captured the city, and then began one of the most brutal and ruthless dictatorial regimes in the history of the ...

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his ...

So begins the book Music Through the Dark, the remarkable story of how Cambodian musician Daran Kravanh survived the "killing fields" and genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime. Kravanh, then a college ...

A group of unidentified Cambodian officials tour the cremation site of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006, near Anlong Veng, Cambodia, near the Thai border. Anlong Veng, Cambodia — ...

A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...