Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...
The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ethnonationalist Pol Pot, ruled the nation from 1975 to 1979 - and the damage that it inflicted continues to shape Cambodia to this day.
François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...
North Vietnam annexed the South, ending a decade of conflict but in Cambodia the arrival of the Khmer Rouge resulted in disaster. Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage ...
Cambodian authorities arrested 1,311 drug suspects involved in 539 cases in January. Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodian authorities ...
Hopes that Cambodia will be free of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) by the end of this year have been dashed by US ...
Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...
In the northern district of Anlong Veng, the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, a newly designed roof now shelters the modest tomb of Pol Pot, one of history’s most infamous figures. The project, ...
Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...
Cambodia’s government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said today. The ultra-Maoist movement ...
Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and ...
So, buckle up those seatbelts, and get ready to be surprised. Send in the clowns! “Don’t you love farce? But where are the clowns?