Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...

In the deeply moving docu "Brother Number One," New Zealander Rob Hamill confronts Comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge leader who ordered the torture and execution of Hamill's brother Kerry at the notorious ...

The artist Fonki developed a graffiti style that blends ancient motifs with scenes of modern Cambodia. By Mike Ives and Cy Liu Kong Nay, a blind lute player who endured the horrors of a totalitarian ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Thirty years after the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people, the first trial of his top cadres begins on Feb. 17. A handful of ageing ...

Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity by a Cambodian court and sentenced to life in prison. Nuon Chea, who was deputy to the infamous Pol Pot, and Khieu ...

(Reuters) - Prosecutors for Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal began laying out their case on Monday in the first trial of a senior Pol Pot cadre since the fall of the regime blamed for 1.7 million ...

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 of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed ...