Khmer Rouge’s ‘first lady,’ charged with genocide, dies at 83
Ieng Thirith, the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, has died in Cambodia after a long illness, according to a United Nations-backed tribunal that is trying former regime leaders in Phnom Penh.
China stirs up ghosts of Khmer Rouge airport project
The military airport outside this river town in central Cambodia sprawls out in eerie silence, its vast concrete runway untroubled by any sign of aircraft.
Forty years after ‘Year Zero’: Cambodia’s young wrestle with a dark past
Four decades ago, on April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh and seized power.
How a Brutal Khmer Rouge Leader Died ‘Not Guilty’
A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary’s human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals.
Death of a killer in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime’s 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87.
Cambodia: Cashing in on the Khmer Rouge
According to a government tourism plan, 14 Khmer Rouge sites are set for a makeover.
Notorious Khmer Rouge jailer gets life sentence
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, and NEW DELHI – A court in Cambodia on Friday rejected an appeal by a notorious Khmer Rouge jailer and extended his prison sentence to life in a decision welcomed by many in the war-torn country. Kang Kek Ieu, known as Kaing Guek Eav in tribunal filings but more often referred to...
Khmer Rouge No. 2 gives insight to his role in Cambodia’s ‘killing fields’
Nuon Chea, the deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia’s ‘killing fields’ told the tribunal today that he carried out its policies to protect the country.
Khmer Rouge trial opens in Cambodia amid claims of interference
Critics say political interference and judicial misconduct are tarnishing the UN-backed Khmer Rouge trial, seen as key to justice more than 30 years after the brutal regime was ousted.
Ghosts of the killing fields
An apparent unwillingness to try two Khmer Rouge commanders for war crimes reflects a growing mood to bury Cambodia’s bloody past
Cambodia: When genocide trials turn personal
Many former Khmer Rouge fighters say they are worried that the U.N.-backed tribunal will start to cast a wider net.
Slow justice in Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal
Senior Khmer Rouge officials go to trial later this month but there are increasing concerns that the government is meddling in the judicial process, writes Sebastian Strangio from Phnom Penh
