Cambodia News: Pol Pot

(Eds: Replaces word 'decade' with 'century' in para 1) New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) Union minister Arun Jaitley Friday took pot shots at the Congress, saying it is ...

Aida and her family had planned a vacation in Europe. She then engaged a travel agency that a friend recommended. After making the payment, Aida received ...

LONDON: British lawmaker Ian Austin resigned from the opposition Labour Party on Friday, the ninth person to do so this week, saying it was “broken” and had ...

SYDNEY: A Chinese-Australian billionaire businessman on Friday won a high-profile defamation case against a newspaper that alleged he was a ...

(Onitsha Nigeria, 22nd February 2019)-TheSoutheast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Democracy Organizations (a coalition of 22 human rights ...

Vietnam and Cambodia are two countries that enjoy a long-standing relationship. The necessity to establish cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia has a ...

Follow their travels from Angkor Wat to the floating village.

Religions preach harmony, forgiveness, love, peace, etc., and denounce killing. War undoubtedly brings destruction, but we still have wars.

The primary industries ministry is battling what it calls a 'perception war' over palm's links to deforestation and threat to animal habitats.

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

Prime Minister Hun Sen has again used Facebook to compare the Kingdom's current state of development with that of the post-war era. On Tuesday, he posted ...

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): There's a tweet here from Ben Stein. You all know who Ben Stein is, well-known raconteur, Hollywood actor, does commercials, ...

The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge's monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war ...

During the Maoist reign of terror, more than two million Cambodians died of hunger, forced labour, torture and mass executions. For Premier Hun Sen, 7 January ...

Cambodians attend an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the toppling of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime at the Olympic stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Charity worker Victoria Telford uses metal detectors to find and clear bombs in the country where 25000 people have suffered amputations due to explosions.

The Khmer Rouge officially fell on Jan. 7, 1979, but the legacy of the regime and its genocide is still pervasive. Here's what to know.

For decades, the official line from the United Nations and the bevy of international foreign ministers and diplomats who brokered the 1991 Paris Peace Accords ...

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, ...

A ceremony was held in HCM City on Jan 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the southwest border defence war victory and the valuable support given by the ...

PRIME Minister Hun Sen used Saturday's inauguration of the “Win-Win Monument” to blast Western governments he accused of making policy mistakes ...

A ceremony was held in southern Kiên Giang Province to mark the 40th anniversary of the Ta Lon landing-by-sea campaign – a milestone in the victory against ...

On Christmas Day 40 years ago, 150,000 Vietnamese troops crossed the border into Cambodia and launched a bloody campaign to drive the murderous Khmer ...

A performance depicting the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime was held on December 2, marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Kampuchean ...

40 years after the invasion that toppled the Khmer Rouge, it's clear China emerged the ultimate winner.

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

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 ...

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 ...

It is the first time that any of Pol Pot senior officials of the Communist Party of Kampuchea have been convicted of genocide.

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 ...

PHNOM PENH -- The Khmer Rouge tribunal will on Friday announce whether two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are guilty of genocide -- a verdict.

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

Why Most Chinese Tourists Do Not Visit the Killing Fields? They would be confronted with disturbing news about the CCP's responsibilities in the tragedy.

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 ...

The Vietnam War wounded America, but Iowans came together to help the victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in an overwhelming outpouring of charity in 1979.

Editor's Note: Milton Osbourne is one of Australia's leading authorities on Southeast Asia. His latest work, “Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem: Remembering ...

His latest work, “Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem: Remembering Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds”, is a memoir of his days as a young diplomat in Phnom ...

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 ...

Decimated by genocide, Cambodia's educational progress so far is surely commendable.

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 ...

Facebook's struggles to adapt to a political world in which it's become a major player intensified when it banned a California Republican House candidate's ...

TOKYO -- As Cambodia comes to terms with many more years under the leadership of Hun Sen, the focus is now on his son Hun Manet, who is widely expecte.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In a fiery speech more than three years ago Prime. Minister Hun Sen claimed credit for ridding his country of the Khmer Rouge, ...

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PM says that a brother-in-law of former Democratic Kampuchea Defence Minister Son Sen caused rifts among the Khmer Rouge movement leadership.

Few countries have been as notoriously typecast as Cambodia The title of M P Joseph's recent book on Cambodia juxtaposes the evilincarnate Pol Pot with an ...

Discovered by scholar Ben Kiernan, the documents represent a link between Cambodia's post-Khmer Rouge present and pre-colonial past.

PHNOM PENH — The United States has been busy in Cambodia these past few months, if Hun Sen's government is to be believed. Between trying to overthrow ...

LUCENA CITY—The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has cautioned government officials against prematurely releasing information on ongoing ...

Only three people from an An Giang's commune survived the killings 40 years ago, according to historical records. - VnExpress International.

THE woman with her baby stares quietly into the camera, her passive gaze perhaps containing some knowledge of the unspeakable horrors that were about to ...

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

Research on profound human suffering requires more than intellectual understanding of legal and political mechanics. It requires a human journey that goes ...

The accounts of victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge show how they were able to find justice and healing by breaking their silence and speaking on behalf of those ...

The accounts of survivors of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge show how they were able to find justice and healing by breaking their silence and speaking on behalf of ...

Two decades have passed, but Mea Chron still stands by Pol Pot. Most days he also stands by the mass murderer's cremation site, keeping guard in the Khmer ...

Anlong Veng, Cambodia — Twenty years ago on April 15, Pol Pot, the leader of one of the 20th century's most radical and murderous regimes that resulted in ...

On April 17, 1975, the residents of Cambodias capital Phnom Penh cheered and waved flags and streamers as black-shirted soldiers wearing red-chequered ...

COSTA MESA — “Cambodian Rock Band” by Lauren Yee, directed by Chay Yew with music by Dengue Fever, will be performed at South Coast Repertory, 655 ...

Now entering his 34th year in power, 65-year-old Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has had more than half his life to refine and update the canonical story of ...

Pol Pot under house arrest in Combodia. 1998 - Pol Pot, the former leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrilla group, has been tracked down and found sick, ...

The Khmer Rouge History application for smartphones or tablet lets users learn in detail about the Democratic Kampuchea regime. Information on the key events ...

A New York Times columnist on Tuesday appeared to draw a comparison between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.

Despite the “Do not disturb” sign tied to the fence — written in English, a rarity in this tranquil Cambodian backwater — the old man in the wooden garden cha.

Richard Beebe Dudman, a prolific American journalist perhaps best known in the Kingdom for being among the few reporters to have met former Khmer Rouge ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian food stall began on Monday serving a thin, watery rice porridge that almost everyone had to eat during the 1970s rule ...

Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan and “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea were “Pol Pot's double shadow” and should be held legally and morally ...

After 11 years, a tribunal looking into the Cambodian genocide has yielded just three convictions — that's not justice.

A single photograph led me to the "technician" of Cambodia's holocaust.

MALAI, Cambodia — For years, Tep Khunnal was the devoted personal secretary of Pol Pot, staying loyal to the charismatic ultracommunist leader even as the ...

In Pailin, a province in Cambodia established for former members of Pol Pot's regime, Christianity is offering the redemption that Buddhism's karma cannot.

In every human being, there must be a degree of believing in oneself in order to succeed in life, but in some revolutionaries, such as Khmer Rouge leader Pol ...

Interest in the decade-long, UN-backed tribunal against ex-Khmer Rouge leaders spiked in August, when the Phnom Penh court announced it would hear ...

As the Khmer Rouge tribunal continues to hear evidence on internal killings and alleged rebellions, witness Norng Nim yesterday testified that it was Brother ...

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 ...

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

Even within the context of the unimaginable atrocities committed during Pol Pot's rule, Cambodia's Chinese community endured some of the greatest losses ...

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

Ieng Thirith, the sister-in-law of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, died on Saturday, nearly five years after she was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes ...

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is based on the 2000 memoir by activist and former child soldier Loung Ung.

Post-Dispatch reporter's writings on Cambodian dictator come back to bite him.

Tuol Sleng is Cambodia's most notorious prison - in the 1970s, at least 12,000 people were tortured there and murdered. Only a handful of prisoners survived ...

Questions of guilt and innocence run deep when confronting the Khmer Rouge horrors that left one in four people dead.

The shocking parallels between ISIS and Pol Pot's Cambodia.

U.S. journalist Elizabeth Becker on Monday recounted dramatic stories at the Khmer Rouge tribunal of meeting Pol Pot in 1978 on a trip to Cambodia and later ...

Invoking Syria and ISIL, Prime Minister Hun Sen warns opposing his party equals supporting the murderous Khmer Rouge.

Tens of thousands of young Vietnamese soldiers fought the Khmer Rouge, reports Kevin Doyle, but Hanoi doesn't commemorate them and Cambodia wants to ...

On Thursday, 83-year-old Khieu Samphan and 88-year-old Nuon Chea were found guilty in a Phnom Penh court. A United Nations-backed tribunal had decided ...

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.

For most of his thirties, Cambodia's brutal dictator worked as a French teacher in Phnom Penh and his students adored him.

From a portrait of Pol Pot to a collection of ancient oral tales, Peter Fröberg Idling provides 10 titles essential to understanding the Asian nation.

To a passing stranger, the distant sound of music may have hinted at just another celebration in a typically busy wedding season fast drawing to a close. But this ...

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

Nuon Chea, formerly known as Pol Pot's Brother Number Two, on Thursday told an international court that he was innocent of genocide and never ordered ...

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.

CAMBODIA HAS lain for too long under the black umbrella of its past. But Cambodia is waking up, has looked the evil one in its eye and, re-born, found i...

It has been more than three decades since the Khmer Rouge began a violent campaign that laid waste to Cambodia, killing up to a quarter of the population in ...

Pol Pot's chief torturer told Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal on Monday that U.S. policies in Indochina in the 1970s contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.