The war criminal better known as "Comrade Duch" headed the Santebal, a special branch of the Khmer Rouge tasked with internal security. He and his supporters also set up prisons, including the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues - so-called ‘door guardians’ near an ancient temple in ...

One of the key figures was Kak Channthy, whose name has been revived by The Cambodian Space Project, an Aussie-Asian band and ...

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge, a radical communist group led by Pol Pot ... “The men all are creating war, always supporting money for weapons to the war. When war happens, it doesn’t just affect one ...

The Khmer Rouge tribunal came out of a uniquely optimistic period in international relations, in the late 1990s. The end of the Cold War made the pursuit of justice in a country like Cambodia ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer ... was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He died at a hospital in Cambodia early ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge commander, has been outspoken in his opposition to further trials of mid-ranking cadre, claiming it could result in a return to civil war.

The consequences of Cambodia’s deep-rooted smoking culture have been brought into sharp focus in more recent years. A DC-Cam ...

she learned to recognize these moments as scars of the Khmer Rouge-led violence and genocide that had overrun the country less than three decades earlier, between 1975 and 1979. “The war was not ...

This attack that goes beyond terrorism and war into barbarism and evil. I believe, like I’m sure my father would, that it ...

Strand Releasing has bought North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot" which premiered at Cannes and is ...