Two senior leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime had their life sentences for crimes against humanity upheld in a Cambodian court on Wednesday. Nuon Chea, also known as “Brother Two”, and ...

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It took 30 years of struggle to make the tribunal happen. Now a new battle begins to fairly judge its legacy. The victims of the Khmer Rouge regime spent more than 30 years hoping, waiting, and ...

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief of S-21, Kaing Guek Eav (C), better known as "Duch", stands in the dock of the court room at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Cambodia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge denied on Friday that he and his colleagues were responsible for the death of an estimated 1.7 million people during their 1975-79 rule, ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In a vast courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, a middle-aged Cambodian woman soberly described a night nearly four decades ago that she said she had never talked about ...

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 ...