Khmer Rouge: I survived the ‘Killing Fields’

40 years ago the Khmer Rouge were toppled from power in Cambodia, having taken over in 1975. The extremist communists had orchestrated a mass social engineering project forcing millions of people ... Read More

The threat posed by Cambodia's new strongman

Cambodia is one such case. Last July, after nearly 40 years in power, then-prime minister Hun Sen announced ... while European Union officials said it was "conducted in a restricted political and ... Read More

What is left of Cambodia's political opposition?

The same family has ruled Cambodia for nearly 40 years ... Cambodian political figures overseas have launched a new pro-democracy movement. The Khmer Movement for Democracy (KMD), launched ... Read More

'Killing fields' survivor documents Cambodian genocide

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ... 30 years later she still searches for them, hoping they survived. Chhang survived by eating whatever he could find. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, it took him months ... Read More

Five faces of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after the end of their reign, and several years after the death of feared Khmer ... Read More

Cambodia politics

A new non-partisan movement is aiming to give the large Cambodian diaspora a greater voice in the country's politics ... revive Buddhism after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, had close and long ... Read More

Cambodia's pioneering post-Khmer Rouge era Phnom Penh Post newspaper will stop print publication

The Cambodia Daily, a competitor of the Post, was forced to close when it was presented with a huge tax bill which it felt was presented for political ... Rouge in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge ... Read More

Khmer Rouge In Cambodia

Footage of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia over ten years ago. Footage of Pol Pot, Leader, Khmer Rouge. Skulls at base of monument outside the city of Phnom Penh. To camera Michael Lally in a ... Read More

Latest Politics News

The five leading broadcast and cable news networks joined six more major wire, print and radio organizations Sunday with a joint statement urging the 2024 presidential candidates to commit to ... Read More

Cambodia's legacy of war remains deadly as 5 are killed by unexploded ordnance over the weekend

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two separate explosions from ordnance left over from Cambodia’s decades of warfare killed five people and injured two others, the head of the country’s demining agency said ... Read More

EDITORIAL: Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal a proper model of justice

Political leaders responsible for crimes against humanity should be brought to justice no matter how many years have passed. By setting an example of justice being meted out to such leaders, the ... Read More