The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998. Only three of the defendants below have ...

In response, Pol Pot insists that erasing the malign effects of Western imperialism and remaking a society requires harsh ...

In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures.

The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.

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 ...