The museum of the killing fields of the red Khmer or khmer rouge outside the city of Phnom Penh of Cambodia. Cambodia, Phnom Penh | DPST/Newscom Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops ...

The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...

Exclusive: Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh returns with a project about journalists who began to question the country's most infamous leader. Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal refused bail to former Khmer Rouge minister Ieng Thirith on Wednesday, saying she had to stay in jail for her own safety and to "preserve ...

PAILIN, Cambodia — They have the blood of millions staining their souls, but for Christian missionaries that just makes the Khmer Rouge veterans better prospects for conversion. The ultra-Maoists’ ...

The Khmer Rouge's interrogator-in-chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his alias Duch, died Wednesday in Cambodia's capital at the age of 77. The former teacher ran a notorious prison for the regime, ...

When Pol Pot sat down in 1978 for his first-ever interview, the Yugoslav journalists conducting it asked him a simple question: "Comrade Pol Pot, who are you?" The man behind Cambodia's killing fields ...

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

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Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...

Nate Thayer, the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot after tracking him in the jungles of Cambodia for nearly a decade, has died at his home in Falmouth, ...