The Khmer Rouge came to power on a wave of disillusionment, corruption, civil war and rural resentment. Years of American bombing, the 1970 U.S.-backed coup that ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and ...

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

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of ...

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a ...

On April 12, 1975, the U.S. military evacuated Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of Operation ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts reenact torture and execution by the Khmer Rouge during their reign ... outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 21, 2019. Credit: VOA Subscribe ...

The wave of Khmer art restitutions in the 2020s dwarfed all those that went before. A multinational team of Cambodian ...

Reuters Phnom Penh Bureau Chief Mark Dodd came across a bizarre bit of information. According to a UNTAC Aussie Signa ...

Could Chinese President Xi Jinping have picked a more inconvenient moment to swan into Cambodia than April 17? Not only is it ...

As the U.S. and other Western nations withdraw funding for independent media and democratic institutions in places like ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...