Cambodia News: Ieng Thirith

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal is now slowly wrapping up obligations, leading to concern over where its archives will be stored.

In July 2006, when I started my *service* as a U.N. investigator in the Office of Co-Prosecutors at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal, national co-prosecutor Chea ...

Proceedings against Nuon Chea, who died on August 4 at the age 93, are terminated, by the ECCC.

Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's second-in-command in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, died on August 4 aged 93. Following Pol Pot's death in 1998, he was the most senior ...

Death of Khmer Rouge leader does little for justice. Two life sentences are the only punishments handed out to those who headed Cambodia's murderous ...

Nuon Chea, the right-hand man to the Khmer Rouge's late leader, Pol Pot, has died at the age of 93 while serving a life sentence in prison, putting an end to his ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving member of the Khmer Rouge, who was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity ...

The Khmer Rouge's Brother Number Two Nuon Chea is being cared for at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital after being sent for emergency treatment on ...

Almost 13 years and $300 million after it was established, the U.N.-backed tribunal prosecuting Khmer Rouge atrocities has less than a year remaining in its ...

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 ...

Last week the Khmer Rouge tribunal handed down a historic verdict against two elderly leaders of the regime that claimed at least 1.7 million lives, legally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 former chief interrogator and torturer for Cambodias 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.

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.

For Margaret Morganroth Gullette, aging is the story a culture fashions around the inevitable process of gaining years. It doesn't have to be a story of decline, yet ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If justice is to be traded for peace and reconciliation, the Khmer people must decide.

For decades, the Khmer Rouge – the infamous ruling party of Cambodia in the mid- to late-1970s which orchestrated a genocide there – along with its ...

Witness tells Khmer Rouge tribunal how captives pleaded not to be raped before they were brutally beheaded and tossed in shallow pit - Anadolu Agency.

Sihanoukville. In the history of persons indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, it is not usual to see a woman. It is like leaders of violence and ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – A few years back, looking for a legit tattoo parlor in Phnom Penh was quite a mission. Now, they are cropping up everywhere ...

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 ...

Ms. Ieng Thirith, the most powerful woman in a brutal regime and Pol Pot's sister-in-law, was found unfit for trial in 2012 because of dementia.

PHNOM PENH, (Xinhua) — Two Cambodian peacekeepers were wounded on Saturday when their armored vehicle triggered a landmine in the conflict-torn ...

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Passerelles Numériques Cambodia (PNC) opened its campus to the public this weekend for a colorful celebration of street art, ...

While the scope of female participation in the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge is unknown, experts say it is understated At 14, Tuy Kin was barely a young woman ...

“The truth is a hard thing to articulate, let alone take responsibility for. Though we have good reason to decry the torturers' failure to speak to the truth, the ...

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

Despite many Cambodian New Yorkers' connection to the tragedy, the diaspora here isn't too focused on the proceedings in their home country.

(New York) – The Cambodian government should act on charges issued against criminal suspects by an international judge at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, or the ...

The special tribunal dealing with Khmer Rouge atrocities has for the first time filed charges related to the killing nearly 37 years ago of Stuart Glass, a Canadian ...

30 Years of Hun Sen Violence, Repression, and Corruption in Cambodia.

Khmer Rouge chief ideologue and Brother Number Two Nuon Chea has accused Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen and other senior government figures of ...

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 ...

A list of world leaders and former generals convicted of crimes against humanity or genocide who have been caught or are still at large.

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.

Attempts at providing Khmer Rouge victims with long overdue justice have faltered badly.

On this day in 1975, the Khmer Rouge overran the capital and began a mass exodus of the cities, pushing people into labor camps and work collectives.

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 ...

Victory Day marks the January 7, 1979, liberation by Vietnamese forces, but not all are happy.

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 global rights watchdog has slammed the Cambodian government for failing to pay national staffers at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, saying Phnom Penh is ...

Many former Khmer Rouge commanders have retired to the villages in the remote jungle surrounding the town of Pailin, in the far west of Cambodia.

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 ...

A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary's human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals.

Nuon Chea, the former notorious Khmer Rouge regime's chief ideologist, is fit to stand trial for war crimes and genocide, medical experts told Cambodia's ...

Some 1,000 mourners attended the cremation Thursday of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, who died last week while on trial for genocide ...

Ieng Sary, who has died aged 87, was a former Khmer Rouge official whose defection from the Cambodian Maoist rebel group in 1996 led to its collapse, ...

A foreign tourist looks at skulls of Khmer Rouge's victims displayed in a memorial at the site of the former killing field at Choeung Ek in the outskirts of Phnom ...

A convoy bearing the body of late Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk departed on Wednesday from the Beijing hospital where he passed away this week en ...

The most important news from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia this month was, without doubt, the release of Ieng Thirith, 80, known also ...

The four-stripe general looked down at Kunthear Thorng and asked the boy to leave with him. “I said 'to where?' and he said 'far away from here,'” Thorng said.

Thirty-three years after the fall of Camdodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, the country is still on the mend. Bruce Munro discovers Dunedin's substantial, ...

A mass grave thought to contain the remains of hundreds of Khmer Rouge victims has been uncovered in northwestern Cambodia, authorities said on Monday.

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 ...

A casual Google news search today of the words “Comrade Duch” results in a small handful of articles published in places such as the Philly.com, Asia Sentinel, ...

Their photos line the walls of the genocide museum, once a notorious prison where Cambodians were tortured and killed by the brutal Khmer Rouge.They give ...

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

MANY of the photographs taken at Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng interrogation centre are too gruesome to publish: a man shot in the head crawls through his ...

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

The only female Khmer Rouge leader charged with genocide at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court is unfit to stand trial and should be freed from ...

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 horrors endured by Vann Nath during the dark years of the Khmer Rouge's tyrannical rule stayed with him until the very end. Indeed, they most likely ...

A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia is holding its first hearing in the trial of four former top Khmer Rouge leaders. The defendants include the "number two" in Pol ...

A U.N. court sentenced Rwanda's former minister for family and women's affairs and her son to life prison terms for their roles in the 1994 genocide.

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 — For 30 years since the brutal Khmer Rouge regime was driven from power, Cambodians have lived with unresolved trauma, with ...

It has been more than 30 years since Khmer Rouge torturers pulled out Chum Mey's toenails and attached electrodes to his head. Barely a day has passed ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed Cambodian war crimes court on Monday charged a fourth top Khmer Rouge cadre with genocide, broadening the ...

The trial of Duch, the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15000 Cambodians, has ended, but the most difficult challenges for Khmer Rouge ...

Cambodians cram the outer chamber to view the war crimes trial, through the glass, of former Khmer Rouge jailer, Comrade Duch, in July 2009. (Reuters) ...

One of the few survivors of a notorious Khmer Rouge torture centre from which thousands of people were despatched to their deaths has revealed how he and ...

Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could ...

Survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime today came face to face with one of its senior leaders as the "Killing Fields" court started hearing the case against him for ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge “Killing Fields” marked 30 years Wednesday since the fall of Pol Pot's ...

The highest-ranking surviving member of Pol Pot's inner circle remains defiant as a long-awaited genocide trial draws closer.