World & Nation
The arresting photographs of Pol Pot’s denunciation at a show trial in Cambodia once again demonstrate the power of an image to stir the conscience.
Aug. 10, 1997
Khmer Rouge guerrillas have sentenced former leader Pol Pot to life imprisonment, the group’s underground radio said Saturday.
July 27, 1997
Pol Pot, the notorious Khmer Rouge leader who presided over the deaths of more than 1 million Cambodians, was near tears as his former followers denounced him at a show trial in their jungle base camp, an American journalist said Monday.
July 29, 1997
Pol Pot, the notorious Khmer Rouge leader who presided over the deaths of more than a million people in “the killing fields” of Cambodia, has been reported dead by his Khmer Rouge guards.
April 16, 1998
The Khmer Rouge guerrillas, making a rare mention of the man who orchestrated their 1975-79 reign of terror in Cambodia, said Monday that Pol Pot has definitely retired.
Aug. 18, 1992
Cambodia: Shadowy rebel used mass murder in bid to reshape society.
April 17, 1998
Cambodia: Jungle tribunal staged by those trying to distance themselves from despot.
An immoral connivance between China and the U.S. allowed killing fields to flourish.
June 24, 1997
Pol Pot Anatomy of a Nightmare Philip Short Henry Holt: 540 pp., $30
July 31, 2005
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot committed suicide last year by taking pills after learning that his comrades had offered to hand him over to the United States for trial, a Hong Kong-based magazine reported Wednesday.
Jan. 21, 1999