Cambodia News: Pol Pot

The moment I spotted the AK-47, I realised this wasn't going to be your average five-star hotel excursion. My guide, Sowath, explained that the rifle slung over ...

BEMIDJI -- The next meeting of Adventures in Lifelong Learning will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at Beltrami Electric Community Room, 4111 ...

Socialism: “A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.”

Those working to prevent and end homelessness are warning that the "debt diet" could halt Connecticut's progress.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Wednesday Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day in memory of the 1.7 million or more people ...

“Socialism is a house and clothes all set for you, a carpenter's plane to round rough faces, to make everyone identical.” — Victims of the Khmer Rouge.

Huoy Lor recounted the terrifying day 44-years ago when Khmer Rouge guerilla soldiers entered Phnom Penh and forced her family into the countryside.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Wednesday Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day in memory of the 1.7 million or more people ...

Hyperbole be damned, the latest from Lauren Yee may just be the best show of the year.

What human era do we live in? The year on my calendar is 2019.It has been a full 73 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau was decommissioned, 40 years…

There were many mistakes made by students during the Wits #FeesMustFall protests, but Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib's account of the 'days of rage' falls ...

There's a lot to look back on in history for April 15. Here are some notable moments.

Windy City Times News Archive - THEATER REVIEW Cambodian Rock Band Playwright: Lauren Yee At: Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets: ...

Cambodia's violent and genocidal past doesn't sound like a story that will have you leaving the theater smiling. But Lauren Yee manages to create a small ...

Last year, the Trump administration deported a record number of Cambodians from the United States. On the surface, these deportations appear to be another ...

UPDATED: President Trump's latest 2020 campaign video was removed from Twitter Tuesday night after Warner Brothers Entertainment requested it be taken ...

Im Chaem, 76, is a former cadre of the notorious Khmer Rouge who was in charge of labour operations in northwest Cambodia. (Photo by Sineat ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted the United States for rallying behind the removal of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 and accused it of supporting ...

The View has always had large personalities on the set, and a new behind-the-scenes book has already revealed plenty of explosive details about what ...

A few days ago, former parliamentarians of the late CNRP launched a call for national reconciliation, mentioning in particular the very short episode of the ...

We live in the age of the beard. Margaret Thatcher didn't “tolerate any minister of mine wearing a beard”. Police once went beard-free. But today, beards are ...

Maoism: A Global History.By Julia Lovell.Bodley Head; 624 pages; £30. To be published in America by Knopf in September; $37.50. THE NAMES of the 20th ...

Last week, we noted excerpts were coming out from Ramin Setoodeh's gossipy tell-all book on the seamy underside at The View. Now Yashar Ali at HuffPost ...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ardent follower of Pol Pot a dictator whose Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, Professor ...

Decades after Khmer Rouge, reparations could not be afforded to its victims. So justice is looking at Cambodia's youth.

Former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, has likened President Emmerson Mnangagwa to Cambodia's former ruler, Pol Pot.

Kenneth M. Quinn, the Iowa-bred former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, is retiring as president of the World Food Prize at the end of the year. Quinn, 76, has led ...

This has come up in conversation on the last thread, and being in second day of my Russian chemo, I thought I'd repost for your delectation: This post was one ...

Director-producer Aviva Ziegler's feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on SBS and at Australian and international film festivals following the world ...

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

As children, Steven Em's parents escaped the bloody Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. On Friday they watched their son achieve a long-pursued dream: ...

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

Politicians and community leaders will join survivors on 27 January for a national event organised by the HMDT, with thousands of other commemorations taking ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

KIÊN GIANG — In just three years under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, spearheaded by the Pol Pot, Cambodia was pushed to the brink of extinction with ...

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 ...

A ceremony marking the 40thnbsp;anniversary of the victory of the southwest border defence war and the joint victory of Việt Nam and Cambodia over the ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's strongman leader Hun Sen lashed out at Western governments for pushing "democracy and human rights" on his country, ...

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 ...

Twenty years since collapse of ultra-communist movement, policy hailed by Cambodia PM for ending war back in spotlight.

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 ...

Seventy years after the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into force, its effectiveness is disputed. Jewish lawyer ...

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

On the morning of January 7, 1979 a small unit of the Vietnamese army swept into Phnom Penh virtually without firing a shot and ended the violent reign of the ...

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

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 ...

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

The verdict of the Khmer Rouge tribunal (The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, ECCC) on 16 November that found Nuon Chea and Khieu ...

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 ...

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

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

A potentially historic ruling on genocide by a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday could unsettle understandings of the past among Cambodians - and create a ...

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 ...

Khmer Rouge mass killings were followed by cynical geopolitics. By the time justice took the stand, was it also impossible? Vicken Cheterian. 24 October 2018 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hard lessons from a dark past. Loss of childhood to Khmer Rouge is one lesson Magsaysay Award winner Youk Chhang says he can pass on to young people ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors watch human skulls and bones of victims in Khmer Rouge regime on display at Choeung Ek memorial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ...

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 ...

Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot's rule of terror killed an estimated 1.7 million people - nearly a quarter of the population - through execution, torture, starvation ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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