Cambodia News: Ieng Sary

Following the French Jacobins, Russian Bolsheviks sought to inter-nationalise their road to revolution, but neither movement was as successful as China's ...

The west has assumed that Maoism, like Soviet communism, has been left in the dust: no European rebels these days carry a Little Red Book. But the ideology is ...

Beijing and Washington bicker over history in Cambodia, blaming each other for the rise of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People's Army in co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed Pol Pot, ...

An Giang (VNA) – A scientific seminar marking the 40th anniversary of the victory of the southwest border defence war and the joint victory of Vietnam and ...

On January 7, 1979, the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation with the support of the people, along with the great and timely help of Vietnamese ...

“I arrived in Cambodia with a sense that tribunals and proceeding with criminal cases against the people who led the Khmer Rouge would be a pathway for ...

On the morning of January 7, 1979 a small unit of the Vietnamese army swept into Phnom Penh virtually without firing a shot and ended the violent reign of the ...

On Nov. 16, a fraught war crimes tribunal in Cambodia found former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of genocide.

BANGKOK — Cambodian and foreign investigating judges issued conflicting rulings on Wednesday on whether a United Nations-backed tribunal, which this ...

The last two survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime have been sentenced to life in prison for genocide. But it's a half victory.

Finally, finally, the over-long, 10-year trials of the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge leadership of Cambodia are over. The two defendants, Nuon Chea and ...

Dogged by political interference, the trials of the those responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians could be drawing to a close after officials stated ...

Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia are expected to issue closing order against former Khmer Rouge navy commander Meas Muth ...

On Friday morning in Phnom Penh, the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)—more commonly known as the Khmer ...

A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal on Friday found the last two surviving top leaders of Cambodia's notorious 1970s Khmer Rouge regime guilty of genocide, ...

Court finds 1975-79 regime targeted Cham and Vietnamese people to create 'an atheistic and homogenous society without class divisions'

Phnom Penh (AFP). Senior Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan on Friday were sentenced to life in prison on charges of genocide, ...

A potentially historic ruling on genocide by a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday could unsettle understandings of the past among Cambodians - and create a ...

Irrespective of what the United Nations says, on November 16, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), better known as the Khmer ...

The verdict this Friday focuses on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed at worksites, cooperatives, security centers and execution sites, ...

The former chief interrogator and torturer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has been discharged from hospital after a health scare that lasted weeks, an official told ...

Cambodian genocide trial nears final verdict. Surviving Khmer Rouge leaders face judgment over the slaughter of Muslim Chams and ethnic Vietnamese, ...

Duch, 76, was given a life sentence for crimes against humanity after first trial at UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

In 1978, three young men on a gap year strayed into Cambodian waters and were discovered by members of the Khmer Rouge. Holly Baxter retraced the steps ...

This is Part II of an international criminal law roundup focused on the ad hoc international and hybrid tribunals. Part I was dedicated to developments at the ICC.

The Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia after the civil war in 1975 with Pol Pot emerging as the communist regime's ruthless tyrant which set about wiping ...

The death of Ieng Sary - one of three Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and war crimes before a tribunal in Phnom Penh - may have also killed off ...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced on Monday that the European Union (EU) has pledged a total of €3.5 million ($4.1 ...

The Khmer Rouge leader's remote final resting place lies all but forgotten, yet many Cambodians cannot escape memories of his rule of terror.

Cambodia likely became the country with the largest number of public holidays in the world on Tuesday, raising questions about the ability of Cambodia to stay ...

Cambodia, the country with quite possibly the most public holidays of any nation in the world, has just added one more – and a controversial one at that.

Dear Sir,. On his Facebook page, Sam Rainsy wrote, on 5 February 2018, Hun Sen ceded Koh Tral to Vietnam in 1982. It is pure lie. To rewrite history is typical ...

There are many other yardsticks for judging the achievements of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal beyond just counting convictions.

With the government wielding the threat of dissolution over the Cambodia National Rescue Party, Prime Minister Hun Sen has returned to a familiar trope rooted ...

It took 30 years of struggle to make the tribunal happen. Now a new battle begins to fairly judge its legacy.

The disarmament of the Khmer Rouge was an ambitious, internationally driven mission. The xenophobic communist regime, which rose to power in 1975 and ...

Over two days of bloody armed battles 20 years ago today, forces loyal to Hun Sen routed troops supporting Prince Norodom Ranariddh, marking the moment ...

Cambodia bid farewell to a giant of Southeast Asian scholarship on Thursday with the death of the American historian Michael Vickery in Battambang, where his ...

Return To War. Twenty years ago next week, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen toppled First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh after days of factional ...

Phnom Penh Closing arguments have begun at Cambodia's genocide tribunal in the prosecution of former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu ...

Leading by example, he taught a nation how to forgive without forgetting.

Pol Pot was a “gentle” and friendly person who never used “inappropriate” or abusive words to those around him, his nephew told the Khmer Rouge tribunal on ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian Supreme Court chamber on Wednesday upheld a life sentence for two top cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge found ...

History would prove the Swedes wrong, though Bergström himself disavowed the Khmer Rouge in 1979, a year after his return from Cambodia.

The Khmer Rouge “twisted” marriage to increase their revolutionary population, in effect legitimising rape, according to key documents presented at the Khmer ...

Former Foreign Minister Hor Namhong was chief of the Boeng Trabek prison camp during the Pol Pot regime, not an inmate, a former prisoner whose husband ...

PAILIN PROVINCE – For Y Chhean, a former bodyguard for Pol Pot who went on to command this province on the Thai border, the seeds of the defection he led ...

Some $260 million has been spent on the proceedings since 2006, with only one defendant, Duch, receiving a full sentence for his charges of crimes against ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The first member of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge regime jailed for the 1970s “Killing Fields” atrocities admitted on Thursday ...

Kaing Guek Eav, chairman of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison, told the Khmer Rouge tribunal Wednesday of a group of Muslims who were smashed at.

It serves as a reminder of the regime's use of rail transport in its attempts to force Cambodians into the leadership's vision of the country as an agrarian utopia.

In August 1978, as reports of Khmer Rouge atrocities began to flow out of Cambodia, Gunnar Bergstrom arrived in Phnom Penh on a mission. He was hoping to ...

Ever since Cambodia's prime minister Hun Sen asked the United Nations in the late 1990s to back his plan for a trial of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, legal ...

Ieng Thirith was the highest-ranking woman in the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of nearly 2m Cambodians. Sister-in-law of the ...

Ieng Thirith, the sister-in-law and close collaborator of the genocidal Cambodian leader Pol Pot, died on Saturday in Pailin, Cambodia. She was 83. Her death ...

Accused of genocide in Cambodia, senior Khmer Rouge regime member dies at 83 in one of group's last strongholds.

It was 1978, in Talien, Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge soldier came for my mother. An acquaintance had betrayed her, informing the Khmer Rouge ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- In recent weeks, from Israel to Europe to the United States, civic and religious leaders and a cluster of survivors, have ...

A new approach to psychological healing after the genocide in Cambodia combines aspects of psychotherapy with Buddhist meditation.

Cambodian students performing a reenactment of a Khmer Rouge massacre as part of the annual day of remembrance, Phnom Penh, May 20, 2014. August 7 ...

My parents and two brothers were among the estimated two million people killed by execution, forced labor, starvation and illness during the Khmer Rouge ...

The BBC profiles Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the two most senior surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime.

Charges of genocide have been pressed against surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge by prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of ...

Khieu Samphan, and Nuon Chea, currently awaiting verdict for war crimes and crimes against humanity, face charges of genocide after 1.7m in the late 1970s.

Y Chhien, who has served as the governor of Pailin province since former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary led his rebel forces in the area to defect to ...

More than 30 years after they were deposed, the leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge are on trial in the country they once ruled. The body set up to prosecute ...

Originally published in the Guardian on 11 December 1979: Ousted leader admits that his regime made mistakes but maintains that only several thousand ...

The recent history of Cambodia is little known, greatly disputed, and grim. [A]fter U.S.-backed Lon Nol deposed Sihanouk in March 1970…

Cambodia's top surviving Khmer Rouge leaders refused to admit guilt on Thursday at the end of a landmark two-year trial billed as a chance for reconciliation, ...

A new luxury resort tries to make it in the heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge province.

Cambodia has banned the denial of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime with a new law, a move the opposition claims is a political attack weeks ...

A leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge expressed remorse on Thursday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people during the "Killing Fields" regime in ...

Ieng Sary, the recently deceased foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge, was given a Chinese passport by Beijing after the fall of the Pol Pot regime in 1979, ...

MALAI DISTRICT, Banteay Meanchey province – Ieng Sary, one of the principal leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, who died last week in the middle of a war ...

Ieng Thirith had been on trial with her husband for atrocity crimes before the UN-backed tribunal found her mentally unfit to stand trial last year.

The death of an old man, Ieng Sary, “Brother No. 3” of the Khmer Rouge leadership, while on trial for 1970s atrocities in Cambodia, may seem nothing more than ...

Ieng Sary, the former foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge who was one of three elderly leaders on trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and ...

Mr. Editor-in-Chief: I wish to respond to an article written by Stéphanie Giry, published on your blog under the title: “Necessary Scapegoats? The Making of the ...

Thim Sam, a former Khmer Rouge soldier in a communist revolution that abolished property, profit and even money, has never tried his luck at the casino that ...

The most senior woman in the notorious Pol Pot regime, dubbed the "First Lady" of the Khmer Rouge, has been declared unfit to stand trial.

Chilling evidence surrounding the barbarity of the Khmer Rouge leadership continues to mount at the Extraordinary Chambers for the Courts in Cambodia ...

After months of riveting testimony, a war crimes tribunal in Cambodia is struggling to continue its own Nuremberg-style trial of former senior Khmer Rouge ...

A Khmer Rouge leader on trial for crimes against humanity on Wednesday rejected claims from the regime's chief jailer as "untruthful", denying he was ever in ...

Upon seizing power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge and their leader Pol Pot began a murderous regime that lasted until 1979.

The former deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Wednesday that he was never called "Brother Number Two", ...

Pol Pot's deputy tells a court the Khmer Rouge were not "bad people", blaming deaths of Cambodians under the Maoist regime on Vietnam.

A top Khmer Rouge leader accused the prosecution at his historic war crimes trial on Wednesday of telling "fairytales", insisting that most Cambodian people ...

Nuon Chea, known as "Brother Number 2" in the Khmer Rouge regime, was confronted in court with a clip of him calling his victims "traitors" in a 2009 ...

Lawyers representing 4000 victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities today presented a wish list for reparations to the United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia that ...

The UN-backed tribunal is faltering under corruption and infighting, leaving Cambodians to wonder if they will ever see justice.

The start of a U.N.-backed war crimes trial for the four surviving leaders of Khmer Rouge may finally set the stage for Cambodia to bring real closure to the ...

The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal continued its hearings into the four surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge movement. Arguments revolved around ...

(New York) - The four Khmer Rouge leaders who go on trial on June 27, 2011, should have been brought to justice decades ago, Human Rights Watch said ...

The BBC's Guy De Launey travels to a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia to meet veterans of the brutal regime.

Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal has indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the regime's ...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) -- At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge from ...

The Khmer Rouge liked to say, "When pulling out weeds, remove the roots and all." Fulfilling this dogma, the ultra-Maoist regime killed the babies of supposed ...

JOEL BRINKLEY, former Foreign Affairs Correspondent for The New York Times, is Professor of Journalism at Stanford University. Research for this article was ...

The defense team has asked for permission to question the Cambodian prime minister and former king Norodom Sihanouk, because they possess.