but people were rarely exposed to his face," Sánchez Lansch says. "It's totally believable that three years into the Khmer Rouge regime, many people would not know what he looked like." Pol Pot's ...

After the regime's fall he succeeded Pol Pot as the head of the movement and became its public face as it sought international credibility. He was arrested in 2007 and, like Nuon Chea, faces a ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has officially enacted a law criminalising the denial of crimes committed under the Democratic Kampuchea regime, under which individuals who refuse to acknowledge the ...

“Regardless of how great our status may be, we all face the same end. What we leave behind is our honour and reputation,” they said. Pol Pot’s body was cremated near the Thai border in the ...