a special branch of the Khmer Rouge tasked with internal security. He and his supporters also set up prisons, including the notorious torture center of the Tuol Sleng S-21 prison where more than ...

The commander of the top-secret Tuol Sleng prison code-named S-21 was one of the few ex-Khmer Rouge who acknowledged even partial responsibility for his actions, and his trial included his own ...

Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

For nearly five years in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of ... Norng Chan Phal, a survivor of Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison. Norng Chan Phal, 53, is one of the few ...

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 ... into a network of barbaric prison-like labor camps.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft ... out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Cabinet ... victims of the Khmer Rouge. The seven-article bill, which needs approval by parliament before becoming law, calls for violation of its terms to be ...