Now 60, Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical regime alive in documentary, narrative and animated film. His 2013 feature The Missing Picture blended ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand, Rithy Panh’s “Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot” (“Meeting With Pol Pot”) reveals its political dimensions through layers of ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out ...

The draft law, which imposes penalties on those who deny these crimes, was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime ...

The book discusses Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge’s totalitarian regime that led to more than one million deaths in Cambodia. Also featured is Ugandan military officer and politician Idi ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

The best director race includes Payal Kapadia (“All We Imagine as Light”), Guan Hu (“Black Dog”), Jang Jae-hyun (“Exhuma”), Rithy Panh (“Meeting with Pol Pot”), and Yoshida ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, forced labour, and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule. The draft law – ...