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 ...

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

In response, Pol Pot insists that erasing the malign effects of Western imperialism and remaking a society requires harsh ...

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 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 ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, forced labour, and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule. The draft law – ...

In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures.

Cambodia's Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...

A man who was born in the “killing fields” of Cambodia during Pol Pot’s rule and a genocide that killed more than 1 million ...

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

In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures. The project, ...