The scale and brutality of the killings - many of them ... The regime was defeated in a Vietnamese invasion in 1979. Pol Pot fled and remained free until 1997 - he died under house arrest a ...

Cambodia's years of brutality The Cambodian metal band born ... claimed the lives of around two million people The Pol Pot-led regime tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing ...

The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.