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 ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...

Khieu Samphan, 90, was the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime that ruled Cambodia with an iron fist from 1975-1979 and was responsible for the deaths of an ...

In the process, the Khmer Rouge allegedly caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians, about a quarter of the country’s population at that time, from disease and executions.

This is the "first building to sufficiently replace the original Roman Catholic Cathedral of Phnom Penh, which was demolished by the Khmer Rouge," according to the ... blamed for the deaths of up to 2 ...

The Court convicted three senior Khmer Rouge leaders: Kaing Guek Eav ... were never convicted due to their deaths during the proceedings. In 2023, the ECCC entered a three-year residual phase ...