The three young men were killed at Phnom Vour—Vine Mountain—in southern Cambodia after Khmer Rouge fighters ambushed the train on which they were traveling and kidnapped them on July 26, 1994.

A former Khmer Rouge commander was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Monday for ordering the killings of three Western backpackers kidnapped from a train. The verdict against Nuon Paet ...

The Sihanoukville-bound train was attacked in 1994 by the Khmer Rouge. Thirteen Cambodians. died in the attack, and three tourists - Braquet, 27, Briton Mark Slater, 28, and. Australian David Wilson, ...

The Khmer Rouge in 1975 attempted to create a classless agrarian society, forcing city residents into the country to work in forced labor. Mismanagement led to starvation and disease.

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 ...

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 ...

Kissinger’s bombing campaign was certainly not the only reason for the Khmer Rouge’s rise, but it contributed to the overall destabilization of Cambodia and a political vacuum that the Khmer ...

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 ...

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 ...