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This exhibit features artwork, clothing, photographs, and history lessons about the Khmer Rouge and how the Amherst community provided sanctuary for recent immigrants.

At a time when immigrants and refugees in the U.S. are increasingly coming under threat of detention, deportation and having their legal status swiped away, a public art installation in Boston will ...

Following the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, thousands of people immigrated to the Bronx, including many fleeing the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Moui Nguyen and Choeum Chy were among those who ...

Cambodia is hoping for three sites associated with the nation's darkest and most painful chapter under the Khmer Rouge regime to be approved and inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List next month..

Many of them were raised in families who fled the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, which began 50 years ago and killed about 1.7 million people.

It was a half-century ago, on April 15, 1975, that the communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia. For the next four years, an estimated one-quarter of the population was wiped out due to starvation ...

Many of them were raised in families who fled the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror, which began 50 years ago and killed about 1.7 million people.Since then, the Cambodian community in the U.S. has ...

In more modern times, bad feelings have lingered, as Cambodia’s development, hindered by French colonialism and, in the 1970s, the brutal rule of the communist Khmer Rouge, has fallen well ...