Another Khmer Rouge leader, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted of crimes against humanity. He ran the notorious S21 security prison and processed about 24,000 people for extermination in ...

The Khmer Rouge fully claimed power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975, after the regime captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. Under the new regime, leader Pol Pot attempted to purge Cambodia ...

He has previously pushed for the removal of dual citizenship among Cambodians — which proved unworkable — and has also noted ...

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and all other sizable population centers.

The Khmer Rouge in 1975 attempted to create a classless agrarian society, forcing city residents into the country to work in forced labor. Mismanagement led to starvation and disease.

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. About 10 kilometres (six miles ...

Heng Sinith / AP Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, arrives in a vehicle for a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.

Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister have made separate visits to border areas.

The Richmond Cultural Centre was the location for an ambitious, dynamic event — on Saturday, July 5 — that celebrated the resilience of Cambodian (Khmer) culture. The event was organized by the ...