Meak was a 21-year-old monk at the outbreak of the genocide and became a soldier overnight to defend ... as the Elvis of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge, which targeted artists, leaders, and ...

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 ...

A former soldier for the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen once opposed the establishment of the tribunal, saying uncovering the past would cause confusion. Having been in power for more than 35 years ...

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.

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 ...

The Cambodian government still hasn't offered a convincing explanation for why it is outlawing the "denial" of Khmer Rouge atrocities. The ruling party's power "stems from control over state ...

On the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh workmen are putting the finishing touches to a new church, the first built in Cambodia since the dreaded Khmer Rouge tore down the famed Notre Dame Roman ...

The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 2The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 2 ...