Rithy Panh can credibly hold the title of both Cambodia’s most important film director and one of the greatest documentarians ...
Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts reenact torture and execution by the Khmer Rouge during their reign of terror in the 1970s in an event hosted by ...
A friend of mine, who’s in his fifties, is getting an MFA in nonfiction writing. Many of the other students in his program are in their twenties, and most have no interest in writing any kind of ...
The artist Fonki developed a graffiti style that blends ancient motifs with scenes of modern Cambodia. By Mike Ives and Cy Liu Kong Nay, a blind lute player who endured the horrors of a totalitarian ...
On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed was one of the worst ...
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 ...
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PAILIN, Cambodia -- The top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge admitted he made "mistakes" during the feared regime's rule but denied being guilty of genocide and rejected the idea that millions of ...
After escaping the Khmer Rouge with my siblings, I learned who had been protecting me all along. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” The first time I heard those words, I ...
CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia (AP) — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge ...
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