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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Cambodia held ceremonies across the country on Sunday to celebrate UNESCO's recognition of three former Khmer Rouge sites as World Heritage, honouring their transformation from ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge ...

Cambodia launches a Sacred Tourism strategy, opening pagodas like Wat Unnalom to attract high-value tourists and Muslim ...

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court for the Khmer Rouge will hand down its final judgment this week. The tribunal -- set up to prosecute the leaders of Cambodia's genocidal ultra-communist 1970s ...

The trial of one of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge starts Tuesday in Cambodia, a day many thought would never come. Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng prison was packed over the weekend with ...

People tend to look at you funny when you say you’re going to Cambodia, as if maybe you’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal. After all, it’s a small country that’s really, really far away and most of ...

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