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 ...

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 ...

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

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its ...

A single white candle flickered in the breeze before fading as dozens gathered Apr. 17 on the University of Washington (UW)’s ...

a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule. One of history’s most notorious mass ...

Today, survivors and people with connections to Cambodia reflect on the impact of the Khmer Rouge's nearly four-year rule — particularly how the drive to prosecute Pol Pot and his top leaders ...

During a brutal four-year rule, the communist-nationalist ... The regime fell in 1979, when Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia and toppled the Khmer Rouge leadership, installing a new, pro-Hanoi ...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power and overthrow are foundational to Cambodian People’s Party legitimacy, but memories fade.