The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

Mr. Short talked about his book [Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare], published by Henry Holt and Company. He described the life of Cambodia's Pol Pot, the former leader of the Khmer Rouge who ruled ...

Pol Pot Philip Short. Henry Holt & Company, $30 (560pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-6662-3. ... The book begins its search for these explanations in the early life of Saloth Sar, ...

WASHINGTON — Pol Pot’s death closes a horrific chapter in Southeast Asia’s recent past. But it also recalls an inglorious moment in American history.As Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces killed ...

Philip Short, BBC journalist and author of the new book, "Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare." This program aired on April 12, 2005. Advertisement. More from On Point. Advertisement. Resume.

Meeting With Pol Pot is a fictional work inspired by the American journalist Elizabeth Becker’s 1986 book When the War Was Over.

Pol Pot talked about bringing the country back to "Year Zero," a play off of a term used in the French Revolution. "He succeeded," Mac said. "Pol Pot brought the country back to year zero.

Crossing East: Surviving Pol Pot, with Music Cambodian musician Daran Kravanh survived the "killing fields" and genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime, with the help of an unlikely ally: an accordion.

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 ...

Osborne’s latest work, Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem: Remembering Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds, 1956–1981, is a memoir of his career as a young diplomat in Phnom Penh, from 1959–61, and ...