Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge ravaged Cambodia, killing between one and two million people before its murderous regime was ousted by a Vietnamese invasion. While Cambodia is far from Iraq and ...
Books detailing what happened during the Khmer Rouge era have finally reached young people living in the regime’s final stronghold, Anlong Veng. Last Friday, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia ...
One of the saddest episodes of Southeast Asian history was the period during the 1970s that witnessed the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The group was driven by a warped ideology, and it ...
Mean Loeuy (C), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district ...
Most people in Cambodia are under 30, born long after the horrific rule of the Khmer Rouge. A bus is touring the country to make sure it’s not forgotten. By Anton L. Delgado Reporting from Phnom Penh ...
Youk Chhang has waited 35 years for justice, for himself, his deceased family members and his country, which was forever changed in less than fours years under the murderous rule of Pol Pot’s Khmer ...
"At the beginning we shared a bowl of rice between 10 people," recounts the 71-year-old man who lost more than a dozen family members during Cambodia's bloodiest era. "By the end, it was one grain of ...
Criminal trials in international tribunals or a tribunal with national and international membership are increasingly being viewed as the only way to bring dictators, and other highly placed state ...
In the mid 1970s, the Khmer Rouge, a communist party, committed to the "moral" regeneration of Cambodia, seized power and embarked upon the total re-organisation of State and society. Millions of ...