The Khmer Rouge, which targeted artists, leaders, and intellectuals first, killed Sisamouth one year into the genocide. The lyrics, about a swan, was an allegory for the political oppression of the ...
Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people. On ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of ...
Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts perform the Victory Day dancing during their reign of terror in the 1970s in an event hosted by the ruling ...
In his Aug. 18 Ideas piece, “It’s time to retire the word ‘genocide,’ ” Stephen Kinzer asserts that the term “genocide” is often used inappropriately in situations where it does not apply. Accordingly ...
The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge “Killing Field” about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of ...
The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge "Killing Field" about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of ...