Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five years.
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 ...
“Maybe you have heard about the Killing Fields, ‘Pol Pot,’ that’s what we’ve been through, starvation, not enough to eat, plus to oppression,” Phlek said. Arriving in the U.S. as a ...
Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...
It was the beginning of a decade that earned the Brooklyn neighborhood the uninviting nickname “the Killing Fields of New York,” becoming the precinct with the highest number of unsolved ...
Cambodian authorities arrested 1,311 drug suspects involved in 539 cases in January. Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodian authorities ...
The ultra-Maoist movement -- led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot -- wiped out about two million people through starvation, torture, forced labour, and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule.
A few miles south of Urbana a dump truck trundled past bare fields of dirt before turning into an adjacent lot. It deposited a cottage-size mound of grayish-blue sand—190 metric tons of a ...
It was the beginning of a decade that earned the Brooklyn neighborhood the uninviting nickname “the Killing Fields of New York,” becoming the precinct with the highest number of unsolved ...