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 ...

"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 ...

Home Film Documentary ‘Pol Pot Dancing’: Cambodia’s Dictator Tried To Wipe Out Classical Dance, But His Foster Mom Saved It – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ...

Phnom Penh, 1955. Saloth Sar, a 30-year-old schoolteacher newly returned to Cambodia, is playing a dangerous political game. In the run-up to Cambodia’s first election, this apparently diligent ...

Saloth Sar, a well-liked school teacher many years before he changed his name to Pol Pot, works as the secretary for his mentor, opposition campaigner Keng Vannsak. He is also an operative for “the ...

One of her students, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, appears in the film, choreographing a dance that tells the story of Samy and her foster son, Saloth Sâr/Pol Pot. Rehearsals and scenes from the dance form ...

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