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A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot ...

Pol Pot, the best-known man in this country, hasn't been heard or seen in public for 17 years. Soldiers who have searched for him admit they wouldn't recognize him. Many people don't even ...

Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge presided over the deaths of almost 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. But their presence was felt long after they were overthrown 10 years ago.

Twenty years ago, on 15 April 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73.

It's been 50 years since the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took control of Cambodia in 1975, following a five-year civil war.

He was quickly asked to produce portraits of Pol Pot, the regime's leader who died in 1998. "I survived because Duch felt good when he walked into my workshop," he said.

Five decades since the Khmer Rouge genocide, memories are still raw for many members of Australia's Cambodian community.

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 ...

Rithy Panh continues to bear witness to the history of Cambodia in Meeting With Pol Pot. His typically resourceful, freely-adapted dramatisation draws upon Elizabeth Becker’s expansive non ...

Strand Releasing has bought North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot" which premiered at Cannes and is Cambodia's Oscar entry.