The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in 1998. Only three of the defendants below have ...
For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, faced trial on charges ...
Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge government implemented policies—forced labor, resettlements, torture, starvation—that led to the death of 1.7-to-3 million people, or at least ...
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But ...
A Brooklyn state senator claims the law allowing a rape lawsuit against him to move forward ... In court records filed this month, notoriously hot-headed pol Kevin Parker formally denied the ...
The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 — and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.