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CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of ...
Most people in Cambodia are under 30, born long after the horrific rule of the Khmer Rouge. A bus is touring the country to make sure it’s not forgotten. By Anton L. Delgado Reporting from Phnom ...
People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...
As Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of its capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, a final edition of a landmark book chronicling the rise of one of the 20th century’s most brutal ...
When the Khmer Rouge seized power, they declared it the start of “Year Zero”—a chilling decree that symbolized the erasure of everything that had come before.
Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...
CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia (AP) — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of ...
The Khmer Rouge, under the leadership of the late Pol Pot, stayed in power until 1979 when it was ousted by an invasion from neighboring Vietnam.
Cambodia's 'Day of Remembrance' marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge genocide About 2,000 people attended Cambodia’s annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since ...