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 ...

Samy was not only a sister-in-law to Saloth Sâr but effectively his foster mother. The young Sâr left his village to live with his older brother and his wife in the complex of the Royal Palace.

'Pol Pot Dancing,' about the Cambodian dictator's effort to wipe out Khmer classical dance, is premiering at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

By 1966 we find Saloth Sar forging the revolutionary Communist Party of Kampuchea, the CPK, in opposition to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's monarchy.

At least 12,000 people were tortured in Cambodia's Tuol Sleng prison and then murdered. Now, two survivors return every day to remind people what happened there in the 1970s.

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 ...

Sovereignty, serial-killing, Saloth Sar, serious shamsIn a sad chapter in the history of genocide across the world, former Cambodian leader Kheiu Samphan called Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, ...

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 ...

Pol Pot Secret Killer 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 ...

Born Saloth Sar, Pol Pot was never held accountable for the crimes committed during the three years, eight months and 20 days his Khmer Rouge government subjected the Cambodian population to a ...

With calm conviction, Saloth Sar—better known by his nom-de-genocide Pol Pot —sets the tone of the document to follow: Monsieur Vergès, Saloth assures his interlocutor, is indeed a decent man ...

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 1975 to ...