His book not only recounts the horror of what became known as the “killing fields” but also traces the resilient growth of the Cambodian Protestant Church — a movement the Khmer Rouge tried ...

The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge “Killing Field” about 15 kilometers (10 miles ...

In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an agrarian utopia. The ...

The annual Day of Remembrance ceremony took place at Choeung Ek, a former “killing field” near Phnom ... Dressed in the black uniforms once worn by Khmer Rouge fighters, the students portrayed ...

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls. On April 17 ...

Most people in Cambodia are under 30, born long after the horrific rule of the Khmer Rouge. A bus is touring ... the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the killing field in Choeung Ek.

A display of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields at a museum in Phnom Penh So did the cult of violence. Sneering at the very idea of “the sanctity of human life”, Lenin in 1920 ...

a former Khmer Rouge "killing field," on the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) ...

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

(AP Photo/Heng Sinith) Cambodian town hall officers offer prayer at a ceremony during an annual of Remembrance Day at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field," on the outskirt of Phnom ...