Cambodia News: Khieu Samphan

Phil Weiner honored for training the local police force.

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

Australian national Megan Hirst has been selected as the new international civil party lead co-lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ...

October 23 marks an important date in contemporary Cambodian politics. The collapse of the Soviet Union dried up its long-running military support for ...

The majority of respondents surveyed by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) want the archives of the Khmer Rouge tribunal to be preserved in ...

Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's “Brother Number Two” died in hospital on August 4 at the age of 93. He had been being found guilty by the Extraordinary ...

The Education, Youth and Sport Ministry has approved a request from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to set up a research office and library ...

It was apparently the ancient Greek dramatist Menander who stated that “whom the god loves dies young.” The death of the former Khmer Rouge leader “Brother ...

Known as “Brother Number Two”, Nuon Chea was Pol Pot's right-hand man in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed up to three million of ...

Earlier this month, Nuon Chea, the former number two in the Khmer Rouge's genocidal 1975–1979 regime, died in a hospital in Phnom Penh. He was ...

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 ...

The U.N.-assisted tribunal trying leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge on charges of genocide and other crimes affirmed Tuesday it will cease legal proceedings ...

The body of former Khmer Rouge Brother Number Two Nuon Chea was cremated on Friday at the Prumkirimorakot pagoda in Pailin province's Sala Krao district ...

PAILIN (Cambodia) • Former Khmer Rouge cadres and relatives paid their final respects to "Brother No. 2" Nuon Chea yesterday, ahead of a cremation ...

The death of the Khmer Rouge's top ideologue may end criminal proceedings against him even though his appeal against convictions for genocide and other ...

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 ...

The defence team for the Khmer Rouge's “Brother Number 2” has asked the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia's (ECCC) Supreme Court ...

It was apparently the ancient Greek dramatist Menander (ca. 342-291 BCE) who stated that, “Whom the gods love dies young. The death of the former Khmer ...

Japan and France urged the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Tuesday to expedite the trial of the sole surviving senior leader of the 1970s Khmer Rouge r.

Nuon Chea, a Cambodian politician and a chief ideologue as part of the notorious Khmer Rouge, died Sunday at age 93 after a brief stay in a Phnom Penh hotel ...

Nuon Chea, who has died at 93, oversaw some of the worst crimes of the 20th Century.

Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant during Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, has died at 93, according to a U.N. ...

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

The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal said on Friday that it has appointed a new international judge at the Supreme Court Chamber.

While the pursuit of justice for the genocide that occurred under Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge continues to be a challenging process legally, a more ...

As justice is pursued for Khmer Rouge war crimes, US legal pros traverse the globe to assist, finding parallels between the Holocaust and the systematic ...

Of justice and genocide. From Cambodia to Myanmar, genocide scholars have their work cut out.

This tree was once used by the Khmer Rouge to smash the skulls of children before their bodies were dumped into mass graves. Now the tree is commemorated ...

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 ...

The international co-investigating judge of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has resigned today after the conclusion of investigation of case 004.

WASHINGTON — Byrde + the b announces an exhibition of London based artists Carolin Becker and Simon Harrison opening Friday, July 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 ...

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 ...

Vietnam's actions to remove the Khmer Rouge regime from power in Cambodia in the late 1970s are still a source of division among Asean states.

The pre-trial chamber of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal has set June 19 to 21 for the appeal hearing of case 004/2 against former senior cadre Ao An.

Phnom Penh: Black-clad students re-enacted the horrors of the Cambodian genocide at the "Killing Fields" on Monday to commemorate the two million people ...

The film, produced by Michael Siv, himself a survivor, follows the group as they give testimony in Case 002 against Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the last two ...

Ex-Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia embraces Christianity. Like some other elderly cadres, 76-year-old grandmother seeks solace in God's forgiveness but ...

An important judicial opinion was issued late last month by a Cambodian judge of the ECCC Trial Chamber, making a valuable contribution to a debate of ...

According to the government, people living with disabilities make up two percent of the Kingdom's workforce. Army veteran Hin Bunthen, who lost both his legs ...

Today is the 49th anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule that paved the way for Marshal Lon Nol's Khmer Republic.

WARNING - DISTRESSING IMAGES EXCLUSIVE: Sokphal Din, 61, lost nearly 60 members of his family - including his father and six-year-old brother - under ...

Almost half a century ago, the U.S.-backed Gen. Lon Nol led a coup in March 1970, overthrowing Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk while the monarch ...

The Defence Support Section of the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has appointed Doreen Chen as an international ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Japan should press Phnom Penh to continue its pursuit of justice, to protect the integrity of the tribunal and the human rights of the Cambodian people.

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 ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said Cambodia had agreed to only investigate crimes by the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders, which meant the work of the Khmer ...

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

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

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

Guilty verdicts in the genocide trial of Pol Pot's senior henchmen has brought the curtain down on the main act of a controversial tribunal that has lasted more ...

PHNOM PENH: Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal ...

OTTAWA—A Vancouver lawyer who helped prosecute two of the Khmer Rouge's most senior surviving leaders is breathing a little easier after a tribunal this ...

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

Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were convicted Friday for genocide that led to more than 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia after the Vietnam War.

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 ...

Khieu Samphan, 87, and Nuon Chea, 92, who were convicted of genocide on Friday, once hoped that the world would “let bygones be bygones.”

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The U.N.-backed tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 ...

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.

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 Khmer Rouge Tribunal—"Asia's Nuremberg"—was created in 1997 to bring accountability for the Khmer Rouge era atrocities. 20 years and $320 million ...

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 ...

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

The United Nations has announced it will provide a budget of $8 million to support the Khmer Rouge tribunal for next year, according to Tuy Ry, Cambodia's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khieu Samphan's defense team went on the attack against the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Tuesday, accusing the Trial Chamber of showing little interest in ...

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 ...

Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan – first leaders of murderous regime to be jailed – lose appeal against conviction over deaths of two million Cambodians.

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

Witness describes brutal torture episodes during genocide trial in Cambodia.

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Earlier this month a United Nations-assisted tribunal in Cambodia handed down long-overdue judgments against Nuon Chea and ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...