During the rule of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's lush countryside was transformed by slave labor, starvation, fear and execution. Him Huy saw it all firsthand -- as a member of the Khmer Rouge.
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 ...
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Trial Begins, but Value of Process in Question The second major trial of top Khmer Rouge leaders began Monday, but questions remained about whether the prosecutions would ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Hamill, a 60-year-old former rowing Olympian from New Zealand, about how the murder of his brother by the Khmer Rouge inspired his family ...
We're inching along in the dark outside of Pailin, driving through the jungle before dawn, on our way to the home of the most senior living Khmer Rouge leader. Our camera is wrapped in blankets ...
Sang’s source of inspiration is her mother, Sarom Sieng, 80, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide — the totalitarian Khmer Rouge’s systematic murder of between 1.5 and 2 million people ...
From its early cities to the introduction of Hinduism and Buddhism, the great kingdom of Angkor, colonialism, and the Khmer Rouge, this essay tries to put its current rebuilding of civil society in ...
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.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime is to appear in court Monday as he seeks to overturn his conviction on genocide charges ...
The excavations have turned up some pottery sherds, roof tiles from the temples, and military artifacts that date to the 1980s, when the Khmer Rouge still controlled the area. Pheng hopes to learn ...
Many have recalled the foreign correspondent's interview with Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Fewer have remembered his most significant and meaningful work. After $350 million, long delays ...