For most of her life, Sambo Ly didn’t talk about the horrors she faced as a child under the Khmer Rouge. But now, "I use that ...
People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in the 1970s, served as its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to face justice for ...
Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian officials inaugurated a memorial at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on Thursday to remember more than 12,000 people tortured at the site when it was a Khmer Rouge ...
Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him. By Graham Bowley The artist Fonki ...
In Cambodia this week, three elderly men are sitting in a courtroom, accused of atrocities that took place in the 1970s. The three former leaders of the radical Khmer Rouge are on trial for their role ...
Nuon Chea, a senior member of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime which led to the death of more than 1.7 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93. Known as “Brother Number Two,” Nuon Chea was the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Khmer Rouge commander who oversaw the deaths of thousands of people during the Cambodian genocide, and who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, has died at age 77. Kaing Guek ...
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 ...