Pol Pot

Khmer Rouge jailer loses appeal, gets life term

2012-02-03 04:38:20

<![CDATA[Khmer Rouge jailer loses appeal, gets life term]]>

Vann Nath dies at 66; Cambodian painter survived torture in prison

2011-09-06 00:00:00

Vann Nath, whose talent as an artist helped him survive Cambodia's most notorious prison during the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in the 1970s and whose later paintings bore witness to the prison's many horrors, has died. He was 66. Vann Nath, who...

Dengue Fever premiere 'Uku,' to play the Getty's 'Saturday's Off the 405' series

2011-06-08 16:36:37

Cambodia after the killing fields

2011-05-15 00:00:00

A muddy, weed-choked field in the hills of northern Cambodia is the last resting place of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, chief instigator of a communist regime that enslaved a nation, dismantled its social and cultural institutions and took the lives of 2...

Vietnam's Phu Quoc island slowly opening up to the world

2010-09-26 00:00:00

During the four years I lived in Hanoi, where I was The Times' bureau chief in the late 1990s, I did a pretty good job of getting around Vietnam and exploring new places, from Can Tho in the southern Mekong Delta to Sapa on the northern border with China....

Cambodia: killing fields timeline

2011-05-16 00:00:00

1925: Saloth Sar, alias Pol Pot, born in central Cambodia. 1949: Pol Pot goes to Paris where he joins a group of young Cambodian revolutionaries, most of them Marxists. 1953: France grants independence to Cambodia under King Norodom Sihanouk; Pol Pot...

The Reaction: William and Kate's wedding date

2010-12-01 16:33:51

Eiko and Koma's Cambodian adventure

2011-02-26 16:32:58

Art review: 'Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia' at the J. Paul Getty Museum

2011-03-13 16:32:47

IRAN: Top cleric reiterates claim that piety prevents earthquakes

2010-04-23 16:32:26

Peace is not the answer

2005-10-09 00:00:00

IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that many of the so-called peace marchers who trooped through Washington and London two weekends back listened on Thursday — at least not with an open mind or sympathy — to George Bush's cogent explanation of why coalition...

10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism

2006-12-24 00:00:00

SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term "atheism" has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According...

schoolchildren make their way past the tomb of former Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok in Anlong Veng, Cambodia.

2009-03-04 00:00:00

The body of Pol Pot lies on a mattress in a small hut near the Thai-Cambodia border April 16. Pol Pot, according to Thai military officials, died April 15 about half a mile from Chong Sangam Pass, Thailand, near the same camp where he was tried by his former Khmer Rouge supporters.

1998-04-16 09:57:00

Pol Pot, center, the Khmer Rouge leader who presided over the deaths of as many as 2 million Cambodians is led away by two soldiers during his trial July 25 in this photo taken from video obtained by ABC News.

1997-07-28 15:06:00