When the Khmer Rouge seized power, they declared it the start of “Year Zero”—a chilling decree that symbolized the erasure of ...

Scheffer served as the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997–2001) and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Expert for UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (2012–2018).

The depravity of the Khmer Rouge regime included converting a high school in the middle of the capital, Phnom Penh, into a prison where an estimated 18,000 Cambodians were tortured to death.

A single white candle flickered in the breeze before fading as dozens gathered Apr. 17 on the University of Washington (UW)’s Red Square for a vigil and open-mic event, “Khmer Remembrance Day: 50 ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. "At the beginning we shared a ...

“Why wasn’t Pol Pot tried?”, “why weren’t (convicted Khmer Rouge cadres) given the death penalty?”, “how is it possible that famine killed so many?”, they ask one after anothe ...

Show more Show less Mean Loeuy (C), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district A bus has been ...