PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime is to appear in court Monday as he seeks to overturn his conviction on genocide charges before a long-running international tribunal.
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The pair — the first top Khmer Rouge figures to be jailed — have been accused of playing a critical role in the “Killing Fields” era, a genocide which left up to 2 million people dead in the late 1970s. Former prisoner Keo Chandara, 63, said he helped exhume more than 12,100 s...
Lives lived: John Pilger, a muckraking journalist who was best known for a documentary about the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in Cambodia, died at 84. FromNew York Times He won an International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award for his 1979 film “Year Zero: The Silent Death Of Cam...
Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia: Did justice take too long? The ferocity of the bombing campaign helped the communist Khmer Rouge in their recruitment drive as more and more peasants were losing family members to the aerial assaults. 'The killing fields' After taking power, the Khmer Rouge, ...
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Unfortunately, the photos, however distressing, become numbing after awhile, especially because of the paucity of information on the conflict and genocide (for example, several photos refer to the S-21 prison, but almost no details are provided on the terrors that took place there). A short ...
From 1975 to 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea ruled Cambodia with an iron fist, perpetrating a genocide that killed one fourth of the country’s population. Roughly one million people were executed as suspected political enemies or due to their ethnicities, and another million died of star...
After Outcry, VICE Removes Images Adding Smiles to Khmer Rouge Victims More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A visitor looks at pictures of victims of Khmer Rouge regime at the former notorious Tuol Sleng prison that is now the Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh August 5, 2014. R...
‘Genocide memoirs’ Undoubtedly, Cambodians today have overcome the fear of talking about the genocide – to the extent that even the perpetrators feel emboldened to say their piece. Krisna Uk said the country has seen a wave of Khmer Rouge memoirs, written by former cadres wanting to argue...