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

Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime wiped out virtually all those, like Samy, who embodied and passed on the country’s dance tradition.

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 ...

'Pol Pot Dancing,' about the Cambodian dictator's effort to wipe out Khmer classical dance, is premiering at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Rithy Pahn returns to Cannes with Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, his continuing journey to process and unpack the horrors of the genocide in his home country of Cambodia enacted by the Khmer Rouge ...

After Pol Pot was deposed, the country fell into a civil war that lasted until the 1990s, with an apparently unrepentant Pol Pot finally dying in exile 1998.

A city councilwoman angrily confronted a man leaving what she called a “known squatter house” in her district — only to have him curse her out and blow pot smoke in her face, according to a ...

PHNOM PENH: Reimagining Pol Pot’s tomb: Young generation grapples with dark past In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now ...

After tracking him for nearly a decade, Nate Thayer became the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader. Thayer died at his home in Falmouth, Mass., at age 62.

Nate Thayer, the larger-than-life American freelance journalist who scored a massive scoop with his 1997 interview with Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, has died at 62, his ...