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 ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...

For nearly five years in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror across Cambodia, killing at least 1.7 million people. Almost half a century later, as ...

Cambodian politicians have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. A statement from the National Assembly ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday. The ultra-Maoist ...

In 2013 Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for ...

PHNOM PENH — Cambodian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a draft law making it illegal to deny atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, including genocide. The ultra-communist movement ...

13, 2007. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File) In 2013 Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a ...