Cambodia News: Khieu Samphan

Opposition figure Sam Rainsy on Saturday suggested he would not return to Cambodia as he had previously promised, saying that like liberators King Father ...

The US Embassy in Cambodia on Thursday claimed on its official Facebook page that there was no evidence the US government was involved in the 1970 ...

Political analyst Lao Mong Hay has predicted that Sam Rainsy would be jailed, beaten or killed if he ever returned to the Kingdom as he has claimed he would.

Cambodia's 20 years of peace. Marking of the formal ending of civil war was previously overshadowed by other anniversaries in a bloody timeline.

It's been 40 years since the end of Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in Cambodia. Many accuse Prime Minister Hun Sen of using this dark chapter in the nation's ...

Seventeen first-year Phnom Penh law students witnessed history recently as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) became the first ...

The ruling party won a landslide victory in polls that garnered both criticism and praise internationally, while the EU began the process of withdrawing access to ...

Phnom Penh (VNA) – The Cambodian Government held a ceremony to inaugurate the Win-Win Monument in Phnom Penh, on December 29. Defence Minister ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the Win-Win Monument and marked the 20th anniversary of the end of the civil war in the Kingdom. He promised to ...

Thousands of soldiers, police officers and spectators will gather in the capital tomorrow to mark the 20th anniversary of Prime Minister Hun Sen's win-win policy.

Cambodia's government will host the start of a three-day celebration marking the 20-year anniversary of the end of civil war. The event, beginning Dec.

Between April 1975 and January 1979, the Khmer Rouge destroyed significant numbers of Christian churches and many Christians were killed. Phnom Penh's ...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has published three documents in preparation for a review next month on the situation in Cambodia. The UNHRC is ...

In 1992, the Khmer Rouge leader insisted he had no regrets about the past.

The repercussions in Cambodia after Khmer Rouge include governmental chaos, extreme poverty (which is still an issue) and the brutal loss of a generation.

On Friday, November 16th, two of the main leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide against the Cham and Vietnamese ethnic ...

Letters to the editor for the Dec. 17, 2018 weekly magazine.

The ECCC landed its first genocide conviction of high-level officers in the Pol Pot regime, but what is the tribunal's next move?

A United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal issued a verdict last month in a case involving two Khmer Rouge leaders, finding them guilty of genocide in ...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, is confronted to a strategic, legal and political ...

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

Trials in Cambodia, while fraught, may help deliver accountability for crimes against humanity across the region.

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

Sam Serey, the leader of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), who is accused by authorities of being an armed rebel leader against the government of ...

Illinois law professor Lesley Wexler reports on the genocide convictions recently handed down by the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the ...

Bora Chiemruom was just 1 year old in 1975 when she and her family were forced into a Khmer Rouge camp in Cambodia, and her father killed.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (New York Times) — Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia's remote reaches, each with a chronicle of ...

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 ...

Sometimes justice comes late, but if the crime is terrible enough, the world should still pay attention. A United Nations tribunal has just found two of the most ...

English News and Press Release on Central African Republic and 2 other countries about Health, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Children, IDPs, Epidemic ...

Tith Morn, 73, a former Khmer Rouge soldier, sits in front of his home in Anlong Veng district. “We protected the nation and the territory,” he said in April.

PHNOM PENH – Last week, around four decades after a Vietnamese invasion ended the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a United Nations-backed ...

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

The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Friday convicted two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders – Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan – to life imprisonment for ...

The two most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were found guilty of genocide in court Friday.

1. Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea sentenced to 'life in prison' - Asean Plus  The Star Online
2. UN War Tribunal Jails Cambodia Khmer Rouge Leaders For Life on Genocide Charges  Radio Free Asia (RFA)
3. Was It Worth It? Experts Weigh Record of Khmer Rouge Tribunal  VOA News
4. UN genocide adviser welcomes historic conviction of former Khmer Rouge leaders  UN News
5. International tribunal convicts former Khmer Rouge leaders of genocide  JURIST
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The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison.

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

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were convicted Friday by an international United Nations-backed tribunal, for genocide that led to more ...

1. ‘We Only Killed the Bad People’: 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders, Forever Linked  The New York Times
2. Khmer Rouge Leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Found Guilty Of Genocide  HuffPost Canada
3. Verdict On Khmer Rouge Leaders Is First To Officially Acknowledge Regime's Genocide  NPR
4. Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of Cambodia genocide  BBC News
5. Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in Cambodia’s ‘Nuremberg’ moment  The Guardian
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The only two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, in a ...

If the current trial is the last staged by the U.N.-assisted international tribunal, it will have convicted three people at a cost of more than $300 million.

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

Tribunal to decide Friday whether Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are guilty of genocide against Cham Muslims, Vietnamese.

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

Prime Minister Hun Sen has renewed his long-running political row with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, this time insinuating the former Cambodia ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A senior Khmer Rouge figure who ran Cambodia's most notorious prison during the genocidal regime is in intensive care in hospital, ...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Nov. 16 will announce its judgement on former Khmer Rouge leaders.

Hun Sen, whose Cambodian People's Party took every seat in the national assembly in last month's elections, is the world's longest-serving prime minister ...

Phnom Penh: A Cambodian courtroom caught a glimpse of Australian James Ricketson's life as a film-maker as he tried to disprove what he said was the ...

Phnom Penh: The case against Australian filmmaker and accused spy James Ricketson should be thrown out for lack of evidence, his Cambodian lawyer said ...

CAMBODIANS voted on Sunday in an election devoid of a serious opposition, which should pave the way for an easy victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen who ...

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 ...

Cambodian bookworms won't have a hard time looking for Khmer Rouge books as many authors have written about the regime's brutality.

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday said those who curse or insult him would eventually die without a plot of land to bury their bodies after being killed by ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said that, with the 20th anniversary of the end of civil war with the Khmer Rouge being this year, the Kingdom will hold the ...

A UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia is currently trying two surviving former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea. After its ...

Elderly Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have been found fit to hear a judgment in the second trial against them, in which they stand ...

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.

A memorial to the victims of the Khmer Rouge's policy of forced evacuation has been unceremoniously removed just weeks after it was inaugurated at its ...

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

Once a student and loyal follower of Khieu Samphan, Tran Sab's passion for books nearly cost him his life under the Khmer Rouge When a young woman ...

Cambodian students can set aside dusty tomes of Khmer Rouge history after the launch of a new app, which allows them to immerse themselves in photos, ...

Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan remained defiant in his final stand in court on Friday, claiming accusations that his regime exterminated its ...

Rebuttals at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday turned from law to folklore, where, for the last time, the prosecution presented their case for why former leaders ...

In the last words the Khmer Rouge tribunal will hear before a verdict is issued in Case 002/02, former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan said he was ...

The defence counsel for Khmer Rouge second-in-command Nuon Chea launched into its closing statements today, questioning the prosecution's narrative and ...

Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are responsible for the enslavement, murder and death by disease of Cambodians during the “most extreme” revolution in the ...

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

Phnom Penh: He has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail over the deaths of at least 1.7 million people.

In a 550-page closing brief submitted to the Khmer Rouge tribunal's Trial Chamber, the defence team for Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, ...

Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan is seeking an acquittal, alongside his co-accused, former Brother Number Two, Nuon Chea, for crimes ...

BANGKOK — After spending more than a decade and nearly $300 million, the United Nations-backed tribunal prosecuting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge has ...

Recently The Global New Light of Myanmar reproduced either in full or excerpts of the interim report by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State headed by ...

International co-prosecutor Nicholas Koumjian went on the offensive at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, blasting former regime leader Khieu Samphan for ...

Former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan sat impassive in the dock as the final verdict in Case 002/01 was handed down to them ...

A top Cambodian court has upheld the life sentences of the two most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the ...

More than two years since they launched an appeal against their initial convictions, former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have been ...

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

Social Justice: At a hearing to overturn his crimes of humanity conviction, Khmer Rouge henchman Khieu Samphan defended his crimes as done in the name of ...

"What I want to say today and what I want my countrymen to hear is that as an intellectual I have never wanted anything other than social justice for my country," ...

One of the Khmer Rouge's top surviving leaders Wednesday challenged his life sentence for crimes against humanity and said he had only fought for "social jus.

Ieng Thirith, a Khmer Rouge leader who was the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the ...

Cambodia is marking 40 years since the fall of its capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, beginning a terror that wiped out a quarter of the population.

A witness has told Cambodia's UN-backed court that Khmer Rouge soldiers slit prisoners' throats and ate their gall bladders during the 1970s, as the genocide ...

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia held hearings Thursday in the genocide trial involving Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the Associated Press reports, ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Hearings began on Friday into the most far-reaching charges, including genocide, against two former leaders of Cambodia's ...

Khmer Rouge second-in-command Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the head of state of the former communist regime, already have been convicted of crimes ...

Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83, two of the most senior surviving leaders of the Cambodian regime, appeal convictions.

After almost three years of hearings, the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday found senior Democratic Kampuchea leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty ...

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

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.

Co-defendants Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan – regarded as the most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge – yesterday maintained their absolute ...

Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who embraced anticolonial causes and the role of devil's advocate on a world stage to defend war criminals, terrorists, ...

The top two surviving leaders of Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime have expressed remorse for their actions while in power and acknowledged a ...

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", ...

Khieu Samphan, the regime's head of state, said U.S. bombing increased radicalism in Cambodia and dared the court to put former King Norodom Sihanouk on ...

In the dry language of his 1959 Sorbonne doctoral dissertation, the economist who went on to become a senior leader of the Khmer Rouge foreshadowed the ...

Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, was charged with genocide by a UN court today but has always denied having a prominent role in the ...