Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...
The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot ... people from Phnom Penh in 1975, and the ...
Anlong Veng was once Pol Pot's jungle headquarters and home of ... as a reminder that the eye of Phnom Penh is never too far away. We see a number of men in camouflage uniforms walking through ...
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 ...
Panh fled Phnom Penh when he was just 11 ... Panh has been committed to keeping the memory of the impact of Pol Pot's tyrannical regime alive in documentary, narrative and animated film.
A few days later, Pol Pot announced ... Khmer Rouge regime and recounts: “I remember the Steinbachs, pure and hard communist intellectuals who worked in Phnom Penh for the French Ministry ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--In his position ... He is the last surviving member of the inner circle of Pol Pot’s radical communist regime that ruled Cambodia with an iron fist from 1975 to 1979 ...
A Cambodian opposition politician was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail and banned from elections for inciting social unrest, his lawyer said, the latest in a series of cases that activists ...
Nuon Chea was the highest ranking member of the Khmer Rouge to be found guilty of crimes at the UN-backed tribunal While Pol Pot has gone ... the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Sunday.
When Vietnamese troops marched into Phnom Penh in January 1979, finally toppling Pol Pot’s bloody regime, Francis Ford Coppola was racing to finish a sprawling Vietnam War epic that would go on ...