The Khmer Rouge, led by the enigmatic and ruthless Pol Pot, perpetrated a genocide that claimed 1.7 million lives in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
Cambodia, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
The 1984 film "The Killing Fields" tells the true story of the brutal regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who terrorized Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, resulting in the deaths of 1.7 million people. Despite Pol Pot's promise of an agrarian utopia, his regime brought only mass exter...
