Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...

There's good reason for this. In 1974, when Sen was just 14, Khmer Rouge guerrillas took control of his hometown in Takeo province, to the south of the capital, Phnom Penh. It was a year before ...

After being ousted from power in 1979, the Khmer Rouge waged guerrilla warfare for another two decades before disintegrating. Pol Pot died in the jungle in 1998, and on Christmas Eve that year ...

The effect was to destabilise the country and provoke a five-year civil war, which only ended in 1975, when 68,000 black-clad Khmer Rouge guerrillas marched into Phnom Penh. Initially people ...

And after they were driven from power in 1979, the Khmer Rouge retreated to remote fortresses like this one and continued to fight a bloody guerrilla war against the government for two decades.