April 17, 1975, marked the start of Year Zero, the attempt by the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot to "reset" the nation and fashion it into a new Communist society by mercilessly purging wide ...

It’s 50 years since soldiers of the communist Khmer Rouge party stormed into the capital, Phnom Penh. It was the start of a four year reign of terror which resulted in up to two million people being ...

Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi ...

The regime may be long gone, but its legacy lives on in the institutions, behaviors, and fears that continue to shape ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went ...

The legacy of atrocity crimes that took the lives of millions of Cambodians during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, and the ...

A woman whose family fled Cambodia in 1975 for the Pacific Northwest is fearful at the beginnings of the same darkness that ...

Frenchman Roland Neveu witnessed the victorious Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, heralding a savage era for ...

A single white candle flickered in the breeze before fading as dozens gathered Apr. 17 on the University of Washington (UW)’s ...

Fifty years on, the Khmer Rouge’s legacy continues to shape Cambodia: politically, socially, economically and emotionally ...

In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia. Up to two million people are thought to have died - many summarily executed, or starved to death in the communist regime.

A specially equipped bus is driving through Cambodia to educate young students about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime ...