Sieu Sean Do was 12 when Khmer Rouge soldiers ordered his family out of their Phnom Penh home and into the Cambodian jungle, where labor camps, starvation and persecution in the regime’s notorious ...
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 On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...
But the prosecution will be aided by the Khmer Rouge's own meticulous record keeping, and by work done by some here to insure the past is not forgotten. Unidentified Woman: (Foreign language spoken) ...
UNESCO declared it an intangible cultural heritage in 2003, noting that it takes dancers "years of intensive training" to ...
Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime, which caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, ended its work ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List. The three ...
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia’s remote reaches, each with a chronicle of the horror-soaked years in which Pol Pot and his Communist disciples ...
Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him. By Graham Bowley The artist Fonki ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reiterated it intends to end the work of the U.N.-backed tribunal that last week convicted the last two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge of genocide, ...