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Will the final Khmer Rouge ruling close a dark chapter?
Published on 27/09/2022
» Last week, a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia upheld a genocide conviction for 91-year-old Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Cambodia Khmer Rouge court upholds conviction in final ruling
AFP, Published on 22/09/2022
» Cambodia's United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime's last surviving leader.
Khmer Rouge leader denies genocide charges
Kyodo News, Published on 19/08/2021
» The only surviving Khmer Rouge leader on Thursday denied the charges against him in the U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia to appeal a 2018 lower court ruling that convicted him of genocide and gave him a life sentence.
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide
AFP, Published on 16/11/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population.
Cambodia marks 39 years since fall of Khmer Rouge
Reuters, Published on 07/01/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge on Sunday marked 39 years since the fall of the brutal regime that killed an estimated 1.7 million people.
Khmer Rouge leader denies mass murder, blames Vietnam
Reuters, Published on 23/06/2017
» PHNOM PENH -- A leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge denied on Friday that he and his colleagues were responsible for the death of an estimated 1.7 million people during their 1975-79 rule, saying their sworn enemy Vietnam invented the idea of genocide as propaganda.
Summation at trial of Khmer Rouge leaders
Associated Press, Published on 14/06/2017
» PHNOM PENH -- Prosecutors at the trial in Cambodia of the surviving top leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime have begun summing up their case, declaring that, despite the defendants' denials, the evidence clearly showed they knew of the suffering and deaths of their countrymen.
Court upholds life sentences for Khmer Rouge leaders
AFP, Published on 23/11/2016
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, in a verdict welcomed by survivors of the brutal regime.
Court hears horror of Khmer Rouge forced marriages
AFP, Published on 23/08/2016
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's UN-backed court on Tuesday heard harrowing new details about the Khmer Rouge's forced marriages, one of the brutal regime's less reported atrocities.
House of horrors
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 24/03/2016
» At 85, Chum Mey can still recall the unbearable pain inflicted on him 40 years ago as if it had happened yesterday. During the Khmer Rouge era, he was tortured for 12 days and 12 nights at the infamous Security Prison 21 (S-21), a former high school.