Angelina Jolie buys stunning secret hideaway in remote Cambodian jungle

This is the stunning secret hideaway Angelina Jolie is planning to buy - to expand the jungle paradise she bought from a Khmer Rouge commander accused of mass murder.

Pictured for the first time, Ms Jolie's remote idyll in northeast Cambodia features tranquil jungle oases and beautiful plant species but its beauty hides a dark past, the Daily Mail reports.

The 7.5 hectare tract of land, which doubles as a compound for her charity MJP Foundation, was bought in 2002 from Ta Tith, an ex regime official formally charged in 2015 with committing genocide during the 'Killing Fields' reign of terror.

MailOnline can reveal that the 41-year-old took time out from promoting her new film about Cambodia's horrific genocide forty years ago to ask representatives to offer £32,000 for the land next door, which is owned by a former Khmer Rouge soldier.

Rieng Cheat, who served under Ta Tith and called him “a good man”, gave a tour of the property.

The humanitarian icon flew to a remote part of northwest Cambodia after a screening of the movie she directed First They Killed My Father in Siem Reap and later made a £32,000 offer through her charity for a stunning 2.5 hectare plot of riverside land.

The land is directly next to a heavily-guarded jungle hideaway that Jolie, a UNHCR goodwill ambassador, bought in 2002 from a notorious commander accused of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror 40 years ago. He was accused of the mass murders in 2015.

Confirming the sale for the first time, reclusive Yim Tith – charged with genocide by UN prosecutors after 600,000 people died in the region under his control – told an undercover Mail Online reporter he was told his land would be confiscated if he did not sell to Jolie.

Jolie has since built a holiday home on the plot along with a forestry base for the charity she runs with her adopted Cambodian son Maddox, 15, the Maddox Jolie Pitt (MJP) Foundation. Villagers say she is planning an eco-resort on the once heavily land-mined site.

Jolie's new land deal – negotiated as she was in Cambodia for Netflix-funded screenings of her Cambodian genocide drama – is with a former Khmer Rouge soldier Rieng Cheat who served under Yim Tith and still refers to the accused mass murderer as 'boss'.

Yim Tith – known as Ta Tith (Grandfather Tith) in revolutionary times – was commander for northwest Cambodia during Maoist dictator Pol Pot's Year Zero regime from 1975 to 1979 when more than two million people died through mass executions, relocation and starvation.