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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The era when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia remains vivid in his mind. His early recollections of hopeful citizens welcoming black-garbed soldiers shift into memories of a disorienting ...

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

The girls slipped off their Crocs and sneakers and fuzzy slides to stand in their stocking feet. They wrapped pink or purple or maroon skirts around their waists. They chatted and laughed as they took ...

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

In conversation with Enze Han, Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Hong Kong, Professor Mertha will explore the surprising endurance of the ...

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