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The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million Cambodians in the 70s. Decades later, a tribunal was set up to help find justice. 15 years later, it's ending having found just three people guilty.
Before the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, Ms. Khuon Savin’s mother had been from a comfortable family. Her father spoke French, the language of the former colonizers.
Khieu Samphan, right, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, sits in a courtroom during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.
The Khmer Rouge fell in January 1979, overthrown by the Vietnamese army with assistance from defectors like Hun Sen. Under the 2003 agreement with the U.N., ...
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country,... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.
The Khmer Rouge commander known as "Comrade Duch," who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died Sept. 2.
Many former Khmer Rouge cadres in Cambodia are now devout Christians, and have reconciled the part they played in the genocidal regime less than 40 years ago with their newfound faith.
For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, faced trial on charges ...
Khmer Rouge rule under the leadership of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, and others resulted in the deaths of as many as two million Cambodians, more than one-quarter of the population.