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

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 ...

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 ...

Almost immediately, the deadly purges began. The victims numbered anyone perceived as challenging the visions of Khmer Rouge strongman Pol Pot to remold Cambodia into an agrarian autocracy.

The Khmer Rouge, under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, stayed in power until 1979 when it was ousted by an invasion from ...

Back in Malai, Suong had described Nuon Chea to us as "Pol Pot's shadow." He was mostly known simply as Brother Number Two. To get by neighbors and the local security, we have to disguise that we ...

The National Assembly approved a bill that provides for up to five years in prison for anyone who questions the atrocities of ...

Cambodian lawmakers today approved a draft law making it illegal to deny atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in ...

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 to $125,000. The bill will "provide justice for victims of the Khmer Rouge ...

Next, expand student understanding of the rule of the Khmer Rouge by watching the story "Cambodia: Pol Pot's Shadow" (about 24 minutes long). Help students focus their viewing by asking them to ...

The bill makes violation of its terms punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of between $2,500 and $125,000.