Now 60, Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical regime alive in documentary, narrative and animated film. His 2013 feature The Missing Picture blended ...

First drawn to communism while studying in France during the 1950’s, Saloth Sar - better known as Pol Pot - is known as one of the most ruthless and despised leaders in modern history. This haunting ...

A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand, Rithy Panh’s “Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot” (“Meeting With Pol Pot”) reveals its political dimensions through layers of ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, the group stayed in power until 1979, when it was ousted by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam. By that time, the radical policies of the group are thought ...

The book discusses Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian regime that led to more than one million deaths in Cambodia. Also featured is Ugandan military officer and politician Idi ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

The draft law, which imposes penalties on those who deny these crimes, was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime ...