1. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848697,00.html Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge followers

2. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848703,00.html Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge shelling, January 1975

3. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848701,00.html Frightened Cambodians watched the Americans desert Phnom Penh

4. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848702,00.html The Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975

5. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848696,00.html The Khmer Rouge sought to destroy any evidence of Western influence

6. Pol Pot planned to restructure Cambodian society so there would be no evidence of Western influence (seen as corrupt). The inhabitants of Phnom Penh were forced to evacuate and begin a new life cultivating rice. Those who were considered to be unfit for the new ways were tortured and killed.

7. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848700,00.html A prisoner’s details were recorded before torture and death

8. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848699,00.html Pol Pot’s Utopia - A slave labour camp

9. The Cambodian rail system was wrecked - The ruined French-built railway station in Kampot.

10. Sihanouk’s palace in Kep was gutted

11. Many of the villas and public buildings in the holiday resort of Kep were destroyed.

12. Kep

13. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848684,00.html Some of the victims

14. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848695,00.html Mass graves were found all over Cambodia

15. Memorial to the killing fields of Battambang

16. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848693,00.html Tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled to camps in Thailand where many remained for more than a decade

17. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1880529_1848686,00.html Pol Pot died in his jungle home, 15 April 1998, aged 73years. He never faced charges....... the story continues....the story continues