Youk Chhang knows the truth about the Cambodian genocide perhaps better than anyone in the world. He was 13 when the Khmer Rouge came to power. Separated from his family, forced into slave labor, ...

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Experts Baffled to Find 1,000-Year-Old 'Lost City' of Khmer Empire Hidden Beneath a Forest For centuries, dense jungles concealed the remnants of civilizations that once thrived, their stories buried ...

After the regime's fall he succeeded Pol Pot as the head of ... a special branch of the Khmer Rouge tasked with internal security. He and his supporters also set up prisons, including the ...

Rising from the ashes of genocide, Buddhist monks take to TikTok to end child violence ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...

They, the Khmer Rouge, hated so much,” de Roland Peel ... will be commemorated next month when Cambodia marks the 50 th anniversary of Cambodia’s fall to Pol Pot. Victory anniversaries marking the ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was then serving as deputy prime minister, visited China and met ...