On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its ...

The legacy of atrocity crimes that took the lives of millions of Cambodians during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, and the ...

As Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of its capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, a final edition of a ...

Thirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything private, right down to his subjects' thoughts ...

Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields is an untold story of the unthinkable ... who is able to thrive in America, revisits Cambodia 37 years later to remember, relive, and retell the pain ...

Pol Pot's legacy still casts a shadow over modern Cambodia Over the next four years, a quarter of the population died from exhaustion, starvation, disease, torture or through executions.

and after his family was devastated in the Killing Fields, he escaped to a Thai refugee camp at 15. Now 60, Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical ...

Fifty years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Instead of rebuilding the country ...

Nobody told Sam Ung how to cook. But he was watching. His parents ran Ung Hong Lee, a popular noodle restaurant in Battambang, Cambodia, that operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...