Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and could face fines of $2,500 (10 million riel) to $125,000 ...

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French ...

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the deaths of almost two million people.

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 draft law -- which ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

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 ...

including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said today. The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, ...

Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre himself, previously introduced a law punishing those who deny atrocities committed by the movement - Copyright AFP/File TANG CHHIN ...