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 draft law -- which ...
Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ... and the alleged execution of members of the previous regime.
He was just 9 years old when he and his family were locked up in the one-time school that served as a torture and execution center for those purged by the Khmer Rouge. More than 10,000 people died ...
The torture and executions that took place at Tuol Sleng were routinely recorded and photographed, and when the Khmer Rouge were forced from power in 1979, the thousands of documents and film ...
By that time, the radical policies of the group are thought to have been responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths from starvation, execution, and illness. Aside from the few surviving top ...
In the less than four years until the Khmer Rouge government was overthrown, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died from overtaxing work, torture or execution. The other day, I read a news ...
Khmer Rouge regime chief Pol Pot, known as "Brother Number One", never faced justice, dying in 1998 before the court was established. Source: AFP/lh Sign up for our newsletters ...
In addition, extrajudicial executions and torture during interrogations continue to take place, especially in areas where the Khmer Rouge is active. The perpetrators of these and other abuses ...