Before the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, Ms. Khuon Savin’s mother had been from a comfortable family. Her father spoke French, the language of the former colonizers.

The head of the Khmer Rouge, French-educated Pol Pot, never faced a formal trial. His former followers placed him under house arrest in Along Veng, the regime’s last stronghold, in 1997.

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 ...

The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million Cambodians in the 70s. Decades later, a tribunal was set up to help find justice. 15 years later, it's ending having found just three people guilty.

At least 1.7 million people – nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population – were killed by execution, disease, starvation and overwork under the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule from 1975 to 1979.

For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, faced trial on charges ...

In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of ...

The Khmer Rouge commander known as "Comrade Duch," who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died Sept. 2.

Nuon Chea, 92, who was the No. 2 leader of the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979 and Khieu Samphan, the 87-year-old former head of state of the brutal regime, were found guilty of genocide and other crimes.

Many former Khmer Rouge cadres in Cambodia are now devout Christians, and have reconciled the part they played in the genocidal regime less than 40 years ago with their newfound faith.

The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, ...