"The more often you change your name the better. It confuses the enemy." So said the enigmatic leader of Cambodia who in two decades went by "Saloth Sar," "Pouk," "Hay," "Grand-Uncle," "Elder ...

There is greater significance to the film than simply fact-checking a dictator’s fabulist narrative. While he was in power from 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot’s regime brutally suppressed intellectuals ...

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 ...

He was born Saloth Sar but became a phantom as Pol Pot, a name that has become synonymous with fear, Maoist madness and the extermination of as many as 2 million Cambodians. Pol Pot’s body was ...

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Led by Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge was a radical Maoist movement founded by French-educated intellectuals. Getty Images.

Pol Pot, who was born Saloth Sar. At least 12,000 people who were held here were killed. Just 15 prisoners survived. Eighty-three-year-old Chum Mey is one of the few still alive today.

Pol Pot — the nom de guerre of a man named Saloth Sar — had rapidly climbed the ranks of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s “red communists,” in the 1960s, and became the leader of the ...

First drawn to communism while studying in France during the 1950’s, Saloth Sar - better known as Pol Pot - is known as one of the most ruthless and despised leaders in modern history. This haunting ...

In a sad chapter in the history of genocide across the world, former Cambodian leader Kheiu Samphan called Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, who oversaw the death of 3 million Cambodians between ...

Pol Pot The architect of the genocidal slaughter of two million of his own people, Pol Pot (a meaningless pseudonym; his given name was Saloth Sar) ruled the communist Khmer Rouge of Cambodia from ...

The first frames of Terror's Advocate—director Barbet Schroeder's engrossing, dispassionate study of Jacques Vergès, France's infamous lawyer-to-the-beastly—are ceded to a fragile Cambodian ...