The legacy of atrocity crimes that took the lives of millions of Cambodians during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, and the ...

Celebrations heralding a communist takeover of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, soon turned ugly as the Khmer Rouge imposed their ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went ...

A single white candle flickered in the breeze before fading as dozens gathered Apr. 17 on the University of Washington (UW)’s ...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power and overthrow are foundational to Cambodian People’s Party legitimacy, but memories fade.

Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi ...

When the first cars started arriving, speakers blasted ancient ensemble music and broadcast monks’ chants from a pavilion ...

“If you don’t do it, it will be destroyed and disappear—and the young won’t have any evidence to believe that Pol Pot existed ...

On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country's ...

Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge (radical communist regime) leader breathed his last in a remote jungle hideout along the Cambodia-Thailand border on April 15, 1998, leaving behind a legacy of brutality ...

the Khmer Rouge embarked on rebuilding the country from “Year Zero”, transforming it into an agrarian, classless society. In less than four years under Pol Pot’s rule, between 1.5 and three ...