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

New law aiming for justice, but critics fear could silence dissent and rewrite history to serve political power ...

Researchers say political pressures complicate Cambodia’s reckoning with its history as a result of ex-prime minister Hun Sen ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived this morning in Cambodia on a very special day: today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the terrible genocide unleashed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge ...

Cambodia is one of the rare countries ... which reintegrated most Khmer Rouge into society. Pol Pot himself was tried in absentia, convicted of genocide and sentenced to death by the Vietnamese ...

Critics fear the move to further criminalise denial of the Khmer Rouge’s horrors will stifle opposition to Hun Sen’s dynasty.

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

New Year's amnesty in Myanmar for 5,000 prisoners, except political prisoners; Washington's sanctions on Iranian oil exports also affect China; The Maldives ba ...

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

On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...

Enacted last month ahead of this week's 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge seizing the capital Phnom Penh, the law threatens hefty jail sentences and fines for anyone who denies the genocide that ...

Phnom Penh (AFP) – Survivors of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime welcome a beefed-up Cambodian law that forbids denying the movement's atrocities, but rights advocates and academics warn it ...