The Khmer Rouge era remains one of history's most brutal chapters. Learn about the city of Phnom Penh in ruins, the fate of scholars and monks, and the dark transformation of everyday life into a ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for ...

Many have recalled the foreign correspondent's interview with Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Fewer have remembered his most significant and meaningful work. The ECCC delivers its final verdict with ...

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 ...

Both were given new life sentences to add to those they were ... speak of the importance of the tribunal in bringing leading Khmer Rouge to justice over the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million ...

He is serving a life sentence. Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary was a co-defendant with Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea but died before judges delivered a verdict in the first of the two ...

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Under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge sought to eliminate all traces of what they saw as corrupt bourgeois life, destroying most religious, financial and social institutions ...

The impending closure of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal must be recognized as the beginning of a new chapter in Cambodia’s search for justice. In 1992, the Khmer Rouge leader insisted he had no ...

Even after the Khmer Rouge was ousted from power in 1979 ... some of the people responsible for the genocide were tried and sentenced to life in prison or given other harsh penalties.

Dim, one of Cambodia’s most influential painters, is renowned for his ability to encapsulate the beauty of rural life in his works. His depictions of palm trees, rice fields and traditional stilt ...