A bangsokol is both the white cloth placed over the body of the deceased and the act ... “If I’d know this was about the Khmer Rouge, I would not have come,” said a weeping To Voeun, 79 ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

Former Khmer Rouge official Khieu Samphan, pictured here in 2010, had been convicted of genocide in 2018. By Jonathan Head. South East Asia correspondent.

Cambodia's 'Day of Remembrance' marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge genocide About 2,000 people attended Cambodia’s annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since ...

The Khmer Rouge‘s radical policies led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people from starvation, disease, overwork, and execution. The regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, ...

“Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia,” a symphonic work about the Khmer Rouge genocide composed by survivor Him Sophy, was released on album.

A former leader of Khmer Rouge, Khieu Samphan, has been transferred to a Cambodian prison. Samphan was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

A brief history of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide: The Khmer Rouge fully claimed power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975, after the regime captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh.

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia (AP) — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of ...