Escaping Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia over 40 years ago, Peng & Sou Hor found freedom in the Chicago area and success for their five children.

Pol Pot, the longtime Khmer Rouge leader held responsible for the murder of millions of Cambodians during his 1975 to 1978 rule in Phnom Penh, has retired from active military service.Khmer Rouge ...

Former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan, left, and Nuon Chea, right, are on trial in Cambodia at a specially UN backed court over atrocities committed by the regime between 1975 and 1979.

Pol Pot ordered Son Sen slain for allegedly betraying him during peace negotiations the Khmer Rouge was holding with Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was deposed as co-premier July 5 in a coup by his ...

Rival factions of the disintegrating Khmer Rouge squared off Saturday near the Thai border, where Pol Pot, the movement's leader, was reported trapped, ill and unable to walk.

Pol Pot died in April 1998. Thayer was also involved in a public feud with ABC 's “Nightline" and Ted Koppel over a Pol Pot story, which ended with him rejecting a prestigious Peabody Award.

Reviled Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot is holed up in the jungle east of the guerrillas’ northern stronghold and about 1,000 breakaway rebels are closing in on his position, a senior Cambodian ...

Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge (radical communist regime) leader breathed his last in a remote jungle hideout along the Cambodia-Thailand border on April 15, 1998, leaving behind a legacy of brutality ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was lying when he said he was unaware that his 1970s communist regime operated a torture center, the man accused of runni… ...