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She gave birth to a boy four months after Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge. “As an unmarried mother, I could not hide that I had been raped,” Hong, now 48, told AFP.
The Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia marked one of the 20th century’s darkest periods, resulting in the deaths of millions. This video examines the roots of the regime, their brutal policies ...
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 ...
A former fighter for the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s told a Cambodian court Wednesday how he was suspected of turning against the Pol Pot regime, arrested and beaten unconscious, waking up beneath ...
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 and immediately herded almost all the city’s residents into the countryside, where they were forced to toll in harsh conditions until in ...
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.
Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List.
Under Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge, Meas Mut and Sou Met, now two-star generals in their 80s, are said to have hauled prisoners to S-21, a torture centre that symbolised the horrors of a ...
BANGKOK, Jan. 7 -- Three decades to the day after the fall of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, the country finally got a possible start date for the trial of one of its key leaders ...
Following the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, thousands of people immigrated to the Bronx, including many fleeing the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Moui Nguyen and Choeum Chy were among those who ...
Most people in Cambodia are under 30, born long after the horrific rule of the Khmer Rouge. A bus is touring the country to make sure it’s not forgotten.