Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the ...

After all, Washington’s Vietnam adventure provided the ferment for the Cambodian civil war that in the 1970s propelled to power the deranged regime of Pol Pot. The U.S. had carpet-bombed ...

whom Pol Pot saw as tiny vessels who could be easily indoctrinated. The film was inspired by the memoir of the same name, published in 2000 and written by Loung Ung, who, as a little girl ...

He was born Saloth Sar but became a phantom as Pol Pot, a name that has become synonymous with fear, Maoist madness and the extermination of as many as 2 million Cambodians. Pol Pot’s body was ...

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 ...

Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and represents Cambodia in the international ...

The fragments of reality espoused and enforced by Pot’s officials are occasionally pierced by cracks in the façade, into which the French trio is able to occasionally glimpse. This fraught ...

Narrated by Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College and editor of The American Spectator, the newest video delves into the horrors of Pol Pot’s rule, exposing the ...

Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge government implemented policies—forced labor, resettlements, torture, starvation—that led to the death of 1.7-to-3 million people, or at least ...

The funeral of the wife of the late Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, has taken place in north-western Cambodia. Several former senior Khmer Rouge figures were among the mourners - including former Prime ...

In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for ...