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

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

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 ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, forced labour, and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule.

Cambodian authorities arrested 1,311 drug suspects involved in 539 cases in January. Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodian authorities ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

The respected intellectual’s writing is a reminder of a moral rigour lost to public debate and universities, replaced by ...

Khmer Rouge regime chief Pol Pot, known as "Brother Number One", never faced justice, dying in 1998 before the court was established. Source: AFP/lh Sign up for our newsletters ...