Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades ...

Exclusive: Cambodia's most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh returns with a project about journalists who began to question the ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--In his position of authority, the former head of the Khmer Rouge shared joint culpability for the regime’s atrocities in Cambodia in the 1970s, prosecutors said Wednesday ...

Known as Brother Number Two, Nuon Chea was second only to the regime's leader Pol Pot during Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Up to two million people are thought to have died ...

The regime destroyed ... As Time reports, many former Khmer Rouge officials remain in power and the country "still grapples with Pol Pot's brutal legacy." Cambodia's population is young, so ...

By setting an example of justice being meted out to such leaders, the international court set up in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime has done a great service to the ...

The reproductive rights of Cambodia’s women are forgotten by the court set up to judge the communist regime’s crimes. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan will spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

2021 (AFP): The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader on Monday (Aug 16) began an appeal against his life imprisonment for his role in the genocide committed by the regime in Cambodia more than ...

Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to exploring the legacy of the Khmer Rouge through cinema. The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ...