On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and ... The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest chapter in Cambodia's history, committing one of the ...

Five decades ago, Cambodia ... the killing and maiming of an estimated fifty thousand to one hundred thousand Cambodian peasants and other civilians. Such carnage gave impetus to Pol Pot’s ...

but ultimately descended into a nightmare of "killing fields." Following the Vietnamese invasion, Pol Pot set up bases on the Thailand-Cambodia border to fight against the new Vietnam-backed ...

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.

Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as ... spouting that China remained Cambodia’s number one investor after pumping more than US$31 ...

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 ...

Between April 1975 and January 1979 Pol Pot and the ... into a ruthless killing machine And why did the West stand by and let it happen As an international tribunal in Cambodia finally brings ...

Cambodia is one of the rare countries that "preserves the grave site of a murderer such as Pol Pot", he said. "If you don't do it, it will be destroyed and disappear -- and the young won't have any ...