Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, ...

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 ...

Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge regime which was responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians, died on April 15, 1998, in Anlong Veng. Following his death, his body was cremated ...

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.