It’s 50 years since soldiers of the communist Khmer Rouge party stormed into the capital, Phnom Penh. It was the start of a four year reign of terror which resulted in up to two million people being ...

ANLONG VENG, April 15 — A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives ...

Some Cambodians still regard Pol Pot as a revolutionary and powerful figure to be worshipped. For them, he was the one who strived for transforming the jungle-clad Southeast Asian country into a ...

ANLONG VENG (AFP) – A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives ...

Deposed as leader in factional infighting and given a show trial by his former comrades, Pol Pot died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old tyres. "All people, regardless of how high their ...

ANLONG VENG, April 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million ...

Led by Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, the Chinese-backed ultra-Maoists marched into Phnom Penh and almost immediately ordered the city evacuated under the false pretext that the United States was about to ...

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Cambodia's Anlong Veng - Copyright AFP Oleg VORONENKO A new ...

Alexis HONTANG and Suy SE AFP Apr 13, 2025 4 hrs ago A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the ...

Alexis HONTANG and Suy SE AFP Apr 13, 2025 Apr 13, 2025 Updated Apr 14, 2025 A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng ...