As the Khmer Rouge began in late 1978 to lose territory and retreat into Cambodia’s thick and humid jungle, Sothea, then nine years old, walked almost 150 miles back from his forced labor camp ...

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 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 ...

On the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh workmen are putting the finishing touches to a new church, the first built in Cambodia since the dreaded Khmer Rouge tore down the famed Notre Dame Roman ...

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 ...

Cambodian politicians have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. A statement from the National Assembly ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday. The ultra-Maoist ...

Rithy Panh has dedicated the lion's share of his career to interrogating the genocidal Khmer Rouge era in his native ... as the regime called the country, in 1978 in the hopes of an exclusive ...

On the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh workmen are putting the finishing touches to a new church, the first built in Cambodia since the dreaded Khmer Rouge tore down the famed Notre Dame Roman ...

In 2013 Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a leading opposition lawmaker suggested that ...