Cambodia News: Pol Pot

A brief look at some of today top stories on the Gazette site.

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Americans celebrate Constitution Day, the anniversary of the Constitution of the United States. It is the celebration of 243 years of patriots.

Rockcliffe-Smythe residents may have been surprised to see the park's play structures removed on Sept. 12.

The dispiriting thing about the leaked New York Times town hall meeting is that, clearly, everyone at the NYT is on board with the “1619 Project,” the fantastical ...

Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, ...

A Republican Party ad riles observers in the US and abroad, appearing to link Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's politics with that of the Khmer Rouge ...

Yesterday Newshub revealed something shocking and disheartening about the spending practices of our local councils. Hayden Donnell registers his ...

The clip opens with ominous music and a portrait of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., bursting into flames to reveal a pile of skulls. “This is the face of ...

Comparing Modi to Hitler or any brutal leader will benefit no one and will only dilute his actions in the international discourse. PHOTO: TWITTER/ PTI.

1. Republican PAC runs debate ad comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to genocidal Khmer Rouge  The Washington Post
2. Cuomo Fights with Anti-AOC Ad Star, Downplays Socialism in Cambodian Slaughter  NewsBusters
3. Ad showing Ocasio-Cortez's face in flames and pile of skulls airs during debate  CBS News
4. Ocasio-Cortez Brands Republican PAC Ad Racist Because It Burned Her Picture  legal Insurrection
5. Controversial AOC debate ad gets #BoycottABC trending  Entertainment Weekly News
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An inflammatory political attack ad targeting congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aired Thursday on a Washington, D.C.-area ABC affiliate owned by ...

Cambodia to host Franklin Graham in a 'Love Phnom Penh' evangelistic festival in December. Bibles For The World to offer support.

Marking 100 days since his death, Australia's Cambodian community have paid tribute to former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who played a crucial role in ...

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 ...

Nuon Chea presided over some of the worst atrocities of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in the late 1970s and ultimately was convicted of crimes against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Finally, some salutary news. One of the world's most prolific mass murderers has finally shuffled off this mortal coil — though, unfairly to his hundreds of ...

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. ...

Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died on Sunday, the country's UN-assisted ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, ...

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 ...

Boris Johnson has cleared out the top levels of British government with the removal of at least 17 senior ministers as he radically reshapes a pro-Brexit Cabinet ...

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

One family's treasured photographs that were hidden from the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

My hero of the week is Brian Salt. This 73-year-old Bristolian had become increasingly enraged by the roadblock set up by Extinction Rebellion on a street he ...

Funan, Dennis Do's lushly animated recounting of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia, is striking but lacks a central narrative core.

The Commemoration Day of the Historical Journey to Overthrow Pol Pot.

PHNOM PENH/HANOI: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of ...

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.

For Cambodian women living under the Khmer Rouge regime, the reproductive violence depicted in The Handmaid's Tale's dystopia is far from a fiction.

PM Lee is accused of reigniting pain of the Cambodian people in his Facebook post. Singapore's Head of Government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Photo: ...

On 31 May 2019, on his Facebook page, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described about his letter to Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to ...

Few Peruvians today are interested in 'the Shining Path years', which left no traces besides 70000 mutilated bodies and a wrecked country. Modern Lima, by…

The ruling party uses the memory of the Khmer Rouge for political gain – by constantly reminding Cambodians to pay homage to the politicians who helped end ...

EXCLUSIVE: Vichuta Ly and Anne Watts forged an unbreakable bond that saved the lives of thousands of children driven from their homes during Pol Pot's reign ...

Actors re-enacted gruesome scenes of violence at Choeung Ek Genocidal Center as part of an annual ceremony to mark the Khmer Rouge regime horrors.

Tough Khmer socio-political climate made for resilience and character. Mealy Khieu believes the strife of living through such an oppressive regime was ...

Once known as the Day of Hate, the annual observance has a complicated political history. Here's what to know.

In August 1978, when Cambodia's borders were closed off to the world, a young Swedish man – inspired by the Khmer Rouge's vision of building a society ...

Former hardline communist president of Vietnam whose career spanned the wars against France, the US and Cambodia.

Amid the devastation of war, Pol Pot's genocidal regime came to power and led to the death of over a million Cambodians. Its roots didn't lie in its "utopianism," ...

Le Duc Anh, a hardline general who led communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and later became Vietnam's president, has died in Hanoi ...

Le Duc Anh, a hard-line general who led communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, commanded troops that invaded neighboring Cambodia to ...

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 ...

THERE are not enough police officers on the street, says Jeremy Clarkson, who wants to see the force get more backing from the Government. He says the ...

"More than wonderful": Thera Theng and her children Emma and Nicholas celebrate 20 years in the shire with customers on Sunday. Picture: Chris Lane.

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

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. On Friday they watched their son achieve a long-pursued dream: success at UMass ...

In 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took over, they quickly emptied the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This was to be year Zero; a rebirth of Cambodia as an ...

The unassuming spot where movement's genocidal leader, Pol Pot, was cremated, his mountain retreat and that of 'The Butcher' Ta Mok, with their sweeping ...

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 ...

From the January 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

There is an entire generation of entrepreneurs—Cambodia's first in decades—who are setting the example of the prosperity that is available in an open market ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It was June 1978 when Hilary received her final letter from her brother John. “He used to write to me on his travels,” she tells me, 40 years later. “They were ...

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

Twenty years ago, on 15 April 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia's genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73.

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 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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The towering terrors of Pol Pot's Cambodia are hard to see in today's Phnom Penh, where traffic-choked streets and wild development have seemingly erased ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.