Some Cambodians still regard Pol Pot as a revolutionary and powerful figure to be worshipped. For them, he was the one who strived for transforming the jungle-clad Southeast Asian country into a ...

Anlong Veng (AFP) – 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 ...

On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...

Led by Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, the Chinese-backed ultra-Maoists marched into Phnom Penh and almost immediately ordered the city evacuated under the false pretext that the United States was about to ...

Pol Pot's legacy still casts a shadow over modern Cambodia Over the next four years, a quarter of the population died from exhaustion, starvation, disease, torture or through executions.

Deposed as leader in factional infighting and given a show trial by his former comrades, Pol Pot died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old tyres. "All people, regardless of how high their ...

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 ...