Pol Pot
(1925–1998), leader of Khmer Rouge guerrillas of Cambodia. Saloth Sar, as Pol Pot was originally named, lived comfortably as a child with his father (a prosperous landowner), along with...
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Pol Pot (1928-1998) was a key figure in the Cambodian Communist movement, becoming premier of the government of Democratic Kampuchéa (DK) from 1976 to 1979. He directed the mass killing of inte...
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Pol Pot¡¦s regime has had a lasting impact on Cambodia. The after-effects of the ¡¥Killing Fields¡¦ of 1975-1978 will most likely last well into the 21st Century, and Cam...
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Pol Pot¡¦s regime has had a lasting impact on Cambodia. The after-effects of the ¡¥Killing Fields¡¦ of 1975-1978 will most likely last well into the 21st Century, and Cam...
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Pol Pot Cambodian Massacre
The Cambodian genocide is an example of why it is important to remember history and learn from the lessons of the past. The Holocaust and the Cambodian genocide have simil...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Police and security guards
from Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal arrested former Khmer
Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary on Monday, the third Pol Pot
henchman to ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Cambodia's "Killing Fields"
court charged former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and
his wife on Monday with crimes against humanity, the latest
members of Po...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Police and security guards
from Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal arrested former Khmer
Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary on Monday, the third Pol Pot
henchman to ...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Although 79 foreigners and hundreds more
Vietnamese prisoners of war are known to have died in Pol Pot's
secret prison, the real toll is even grimmer, two...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Possibly the only woman to survive Pol Pot's
infamous Toul Sleng S-21 torture centre, Chim Math broke her silence
Tuesday after nearly 30 years saying she...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian entry on Ebay has given the term
"only one previous careful owner" a new meaning. Late Khmer Rouge
leader Pol Pot's car is up for auction, but...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Cambodian court charged
former Khmer Rouge president Khieu Samphan on Monday with crimes
against humanity, the latest member of Pol Pot's inner circle to
face a tr...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Rifle-toting Cambodian
police arrested ex-Khmer Rouge president Khieu Samphan on
Monday, the latest member of Pol Pot's inner circle to be
detained by the U.N.-backe...
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PAILIN, Cambodia, Jan 15 (Reuters) - French and Cambodian
judges of the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal met former
Khmer Rouge fighters in one of Pol Pot's final strongholds on
Tuesday to al...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Plans to try Pol Pot's top
surviving henchmen for the atrocities of Cambodia's "Killing
Fields" are running out of time and cash, the court's leading
international pr...
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The Impact of Pol Pot's Regime on Cambodia
Killing Fields court arrests two more Pol Pot aides
