カテゴリー: Khmer Rouge
The three Cambodian sites’ inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regimeThree locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to it…
People who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ could be jailed for up to five years under the law, which still needs parliament approvalCambodia’s government has approved a draft law that will jail for up to five years anyone denying atrocities, includ…
Judge upholds conviction of Khieu Samphan, 91, in what is likely to be UN-backed court’s last judgmentCambodia’s UN-backed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge has upheld a genocide conviction against the regime’s last surviving leader, more than 40 years afte…
War photographer who served as a fearless witness to the escalation of hostilities in Vietnam in the 1960sTim Page, who has died of cancer aged 78, earned a reputation during the Vietnam war as a fearless gonzo combat photographer who would venture whe…
My twin brother, Robert Ashe, who has died aged 69 of pancreatic cancer just five weeks after diagnosis, spent most of his working life supporting refugees in south-east Asia, including on the Thailand-Cambodia border, where he helped people to flee Ca…
Colourised images from Tuol Sleng prison during 1970s genocide were manipulated, media group saysCambodia has condemned images published by Vice media group that featured victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide, colourised and with some apparently edited t…
Figure who ran Cambodia’s most notorious prison during genocidal regime of Pol Pot died on Wednesday The chief jailer of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, known as Comrade Duch, who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tu…
Cambodian politician and member of the Khmer Rouge who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanityNuon Chea, who has died aged 93, was a lifelong revolutionary who served as “Brother No 2” in the Cambodian communist movement for almost hal…