Today marks 50 years since Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge. On April 17, 1975 tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital and the people thought the long-running civil war was over. Instead, it was the start of one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. During a brutal four-year period, the communist-nationalist Khmer Rouge killed between 1.6 and 3 million people via execution, starvation and forced labour. The outside world had few clues of these horrors but American journalist Elizabeth Be

1975 – In Cambodia, the U.S. ambassador and his staff leave Phnom Penh when the U.S. Navy conducts its evacuation effort, Operation Eagle. On April 3, 1975, as the communist Khmer Rouge forces closed in for the final assault on the capital city, U.S. forces were put on alert for the impending embassy evacuation. An 11-man Marine element flew into the city to prepare for the arrival of the U.S. evacuation helicopters. On April 10, U.S. Ambassador Gunther Dean asked Washington that the evacuation

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide. An insane, Cambodian tragedy that was oh, so avoidable. Saloth Sar, aka Pol Pot, was a man with a dream. A horrible, delusional, misguided dream. He wanted to turn Cambodia away from being a constitutional monarchy and into being a Mao-influenced, agrarian, communist society where basically everyone was either a soldier, a rice farmer, or dead. He wasn't very smart, he was ruthless, and he was in charge. And a couple million people died. Find out how the ter