A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the ...

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

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while trying to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that was once a ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...

The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits ...

Themes: Vietnam War (Legacy), Genocide ... Next, expand student understanding of the rule of the Khmer Rouge by watching the story "Cambodia: Pol Pot's Shadow" (about 24 minutes long).

A Cambodian villager was killed after he drove a truck loaded with cassava over an anti-tank landmine on his farm, an official said on Saturday.

He claimed that a leading opposition lawmaker suggested that some of the evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities was fabricated by Vietnam ... could lead to a genocidal war in Cambodia.