The Japanese widow of Indonesia's founding president Sukarno says she will never forgive his successor Suharto for his repression, and has likened him to Pol Pot. Suharto seized power from Sukarno in ...

First drawn to communism while studying in France during the 1950’s, Saloth Sar - better known as Pol Pot - is known as one of the most ruthless and despised leaders in modern history. This haunting ...

National anthems usually transact in ideals and aspirations only remotely connected with the daily life of those who chorus them. The Democratic Kampuchean anthem, ascribed to Pol Pot himself, is a ...

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 an ...

Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

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The most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, has been declared fit for trial by a United Nations-backed court in Cambodia, the agency said Friday. Nuon, the right-hand man to late leader ...