Rithy Panh can credibly hold the title of both Cambodia’s most important film director and one of the greatest documentarians ...
Fifty years on, the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime live on in Cambodia, with studies showing trauma is passed down genetically to younger generations, a phenomenon known as intergenerational trauma ...
But the prosecution will be aided by the Khmer Rouge's own meticulous record keeping, and by work done by some here to insure the past is not forgotten. Unidentified Woman: (Foreign language spoken) ...
Sieu Sean Do was 12 when Khmer Rouge soldiers ordered his family out of their Phnom Penh home and into the Cambodian jungle, where labor camps, starvation and persecution in the regime’s notorious ...
Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...
Orange-clad Cambodian monks and women with red-and-blue sashes representing the national flag bless and welcome a 1-ton ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal on Thursday formally indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 ...
When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of Pol Pot’s soldiers murdered 4-year-old Theary Seng’s father. Later, Theary Seng, her mother and ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime, which caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, ended its work ...
“Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia,” a symphonic work by composer Him Sophy and the first major such piece to address the Khmer Rouge genocide in the country, recently was released on Entertain Impact ...
Tourists who wander Cambodia’s Killing Fields don’t just encounter the ghosts of victims. Even today, scraps of clothing and bone fragments belonging to some of the 1.7 million people slaughtered by ...
The last surviving leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime on Thursday denied involvement in genocide and being responsible for crimes against humanity, in one of his final appearances before an ...