Most grew up without living through the horrors of Pol Pot's rule between ... to exploit the hybrid Cambodian-international tribunal to avoid prosecuting more Khmer Rouge cadres -- of which ...

04/17/2025 April 17, 2025 A specially equipped bus is driving through Cambodia to educate young students about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime, 50 years after its rise to power. Through ...

That tumultuous Khmer Rouge period is still used to justify the long-running rule of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) under varying forms since 1979, and the personal rule of CPP leader Hun ...

The capital Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge 50 years ago on Thursday, but now two-thirds of Cambodia's population are under 30. Most grew up without living through the horrors of Pol Pot's rule ...

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims’ skulls.

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 ...

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 ...

The other day, I read a news report saying the special tribunal in Cambodia set up to examine atrocities under the rule of the Khmer Rouge had held its final hearing. The court rejected an appeal ...