Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades ...

In 2013, Cambodia enacted a law titled “Law Against Non-Recognition of the Crimes Committed During the Democratic Kampuchea Period”, which contained five articles. It prescribed terms of imprisonment ...

By setting an example of justice being meted out to such leaders, the international court set up in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime has done a great service to the ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...

As Cambodia prepares to commemorate Victory Over Genocide Day on January 7 – the date which marks the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 – the Kingdom reflects on its journey of healing and ...

During the Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia, many know that one million people died after great suffering. An estimated one million others fled Cambodia, with over 100,000 settling in the United States.

At a ceremony to mark the 46th anniversary of the end of Khmer Rouge rule, Hun Sen hailed the day as Cambodia's "second birthday" and told authorities to protect the country's hard-won peace.

Cambodia's history is marked with periods of peace and of great calamity. From its early cities to the introduction of Hinduism and Buddhism, the great kingdom of Angkor, colonialism, and the Khmer ...

For nearly five years in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror across Cambodia, killing at least 1.7 million people. Almost half a century later, as ...

Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to exploring the legacy of the Khmer Rouge through cinema. The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ...

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia, most of whose people consider themselves descendants of the ancient Khmer Empire. But painful memories still endure of the ...