As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in ...

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, ...

The bill's definition of atrocities includes genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, which a UN-backed court prosecuted top Khmer Rouge leaders for nine years ago. Under the seven ...

The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader began an appeal against his life imprisonment for his role in the genocide committed by the regime in Cambodia more than four decades ago. The brutal ...

(Photo: Luke Hunt) His senior leaders were convicted of genocide against the Muslim ... “It was also the only building in Phnom Penh to be destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, and this was an expression of ...

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 ...

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 ...

AFP PHOTO / CAMBODIA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The bill's definition of atrocities includes genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, which a UN-backed court prosecuted top Khmer Rouge leaders ...

Aside from the few surviving senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge and other aging veterans of their movement, few Cambodians who lived through those times would deny that the Khmer Rouge were ...

The bill’s definition of atrocities includes genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, for which a UN-backed court prosecuted top Khmer Rouge leaders for nine years ago. Adoption of the ...

The bill makes violation of its terms punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of between $2,500 and $125,000.

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