Khieu Samphan, who was convicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role as a leader of the communist Khmer Rouge when they ruled Cambodia in ...
Premier Hun Sen’s continuing assertions that the destruction of Cambodia’s neutrality, the country’s “civil war,” Khmer Rouge genocide and the U.S. B-52 bombings of Cambodia, were the outcomes of a ...
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...
A pre-teen girl with almond-shaped eyes, a wide nose, and thin mouth slightly agape looks down the camera’s lens. Her age is unknown, though she couldn’t be more than 12. She hasn’t a name ...
For her, the trial of Khmer Rouge high-ups in the courthouse nearby means crowds of spectators who need to be fed. The 24-year-old woman, like many of her generation, has only a cursory knowledge of ...
Sieu Sean Do was 12 when Khmer Rouge soldiers ordered his family out of their Phnom Penh home and into the Cambodian jungle, where labor camps, starvation and persecution in the regime’s notorious ...
Come next year, the University of Washington (UW) may no longer teach Khmer, the Cambodian language. The university is ...
In the 1970s, Khmer Rouge guards would drink wine infused with human gallbladders, according to a survivor of Cambodia’s infamous Killing Fields. Former detainee Meas Sokha told the Extraordinary ...
Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant during Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, has died at 93, according to a U.N. tribunal which found him guilty last year of war ...
The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes ...
Museum and Cambodian officials said they jointly investigated the provenance of the objects and found sufficient evidence to suggest they had been stolen.
Reporting from PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday ...