Pol Pot's legacy still casts a shadow over modern Cambodia Over the next four years, a quarter of the population died from exhaustion, starvation, disease, torture or through executions.

Led by Pol Pot and Nuon Chea, the Chinese-backed ultra-Maoists marched ... adding her entire family — parents, brothers, and sisters — passed away from illnesses contracted under the Khmer Rouge. Her ...

Some Cambodians still regard Pol Pot as a revolutionary and powerful figure to be worshipped. For them, he was the one who strived for transforming the jungle-clad Southeast Asian country into a ...