Sophal Ear, a Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child, reflects on 50 years since the murderous regime took ...

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 ...

Fifty years on, the Khmer Rouge’s legacy continues to shape Cambodia, politically, socially, economically and emotionally. It is etched into every Cambodian’s bones, including mine.

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

When the Khmer Rouge, secretly led by Pol Pot, seized Phnom Penh, it effectively ended the first Cambodian Civil War (1967–75). Ironically, it was French colonial rule that had introduced Marxism to ...

Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images ...