ECCC proceedings against him were dropped on March 14, 2013, the day he died. The sister-in-law of Pol Pot, leng Thirith was educated in Paris, majoring in Shakespeare studies at the Sorbonne.

This was the first genocide verdict given by the UN-backed tribunal on Pol Pot's brutal 1975-1979 regime. Up to two million people, mostly from the Khmer majority, are believed to have died during ...

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 ...

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

The two sisters last saw each other in 1973, two years before the Pol Pot-led communists took control of Cambodia. Around two million people are thought to have died under Khmer Rouge rule.