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 ...

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.

"Pol Pot's picture. Big pictures," he told me ... Another shows a prisoner with cloth over his face, writhing as an interrogator pours water over his head. Van Nath still remembers the ...

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 ...

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 ...