Cambodia News: Ieng Thirith

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 ...

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

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 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 among ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Youk Chhang remembers the first document he uncovered; it's still sitting on his desk. Under a staircase in an old government building in the early 1980s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Khmer Rouge has long been synonymous with the word genocide. Yet some question whether the regime is, in fact, guilty of 'the crime of all crimes'

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

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 ...

13th Jan 2016. Cambodia: Khmer Rouge beheaded Muslim captives. By Lauren Crothers. PHNOM PENH (AA) – A Muslim witness has told Cambodia's Khmer ...

Sometimes the act of dying, by itself, represents a type of victory. Such was the case for Richard “Dick” Walters, who was a leader in the effort to get the state of ...

Over the decades, Julio Jeldres amassed a collection of research materials, from videos and photographs, to interviews, papers, and books.

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 ...

Our regular column covering the deaths of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month. When the BBC dramatisation of I, Claudius was first ...

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 ...

1. Hundreds Bid Farewell to Ieng Thirith in Pailin  The Cambodia Daily
2. Ieng Thirith: Scholar who became the highest-ranked woman in the Khmer Rouge and was later charged with genocide  The Independent
3. Ieng Thirith dies at 83; accused in brutal Khmer Rouge regime  Los Angeles Times
4. Ieng Thirith, 'First Lady' of the Khmer Rouge, Dies at 83  TIME
5. Ieng Thirith, Former Khmer Rouge Leader, Dead at 83  VOA Khmer (English)
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1. Ieng Thirith, Khmer Rouge Minister in Cambodia, Dies at 83  New York Times
2. Ieng Thirith, a leader of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, dies at 83  Washington Post
3. Ieng Thirith: 'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge dies while facing charges of genocide, crimes against humanity  ABC Online
4. Ieng Thirith, sister-in-law of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, dies in Cambodia  The Straits Times
5. Ieng Thirith, Khmer Rouge 'First Lady,' Dies at 83  The Cambodia Daily
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Accused of genocide in Cambodia, senior Khmer Rouge regime member dies at 83 in one of group's last strongholds.

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 ...

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 ...

A U.N.-backed Cambodian tribunal began hearing the first genocide case against the country's brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime on Friday, another step ...

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.

Next week, a book by American academic Andrew Mertha will be published, delving for the first time into first-hand accounts of the ties between Democratic ...

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 ...

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, ...

Some two years after it began, after 212 days of hearings and the loss of two of its four original defendants, the Khmer Rouge tribunal will today begin hearing ...

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

Though many Cambodians choose to work in the Philippines, most of them don't last too long because they feel lonely.

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.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge expressed remorse on Thursday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people during ...

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

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.

National staffers at a U.N.-backed war tribunal in Cambodia called an end to a strike on Monday that had suspended the trial of high-ranking members of the ...

Ieng Sary, the former top diplomat of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime, spoke only briefly at the start of his trial for genocide in 2011, confirming his ...

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 ...

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 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.

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.

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 ...

By Sharon Wu. 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 ...

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

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.

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

At a trial scheduled to begin Monday in Cambodia, three senior members of the Khmer Rouge leadership are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity ...

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

BANGKOK — A German judge responsible for the indictment of Khmer Rouge suspects in a joint Cambodian-U.N. tribunal has resigned, citing political ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 friend of a Canadian gunned down by a genocidal regime still seeks justice, even as the regime's senior leaders come to trial this week in the Cambodian ...

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.

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

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Duch, 67, whose full ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.