Pol Pot’s ashes, ... He died less than 24 hours after the guerrillas had told the world “comrade Pol Pot” had agreed to face an international genocide tribunal.

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the ...

Pol Pot's henchmen to face UN trial for genocide. Phil Reeves, Asia Correspondent. Tuesday 18 March 2003 01:00 GMT. Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

Home Film Documentary ‘Pol Pot Dancing’: Cambodia’s Dictator Tried To Wipe Out Classical Dance, But His Foster Mom Saved It – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ...

The charges relate to the deaths of 20,000 ethnic Vietnamese and at least 90,000 Muslim Chams, allegedly slaughtered after Pol Pot took control of Cambodia in April 1975.

Pol Pot, the diabolical mastermind of Cambodia’s “killing fields” genocide in the 1970s, apparently has died of a heart attack hours after the last of his Khmer Rouge guerrillas offered to ...

Cambodia’s 14 million people face a crisis of memory. Pol Pot, “Brother Number One” in the supposedly classless ultra-Maoist regime, died in 1998. As other former leaders of the Khmer Rouge continue ...

Pol Pot’s grave has remained a pile of ashes covered by dirt and left to rot since April 15, 1997 — under a small, ... “Regardless of how great our status may be, we all face the same end. What we ...

As the head of state of Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea, Samphan, 91, was the international face of the communist regime, which was responsible for up to 1.7mn deaths, almost a quarter of the ...