genocide and decades of turmoil that followed. The last time such artifacts were approved for export was during World War II, when Cambodia was occupied by Japanese forces. The government says any ...

upholding his conviction and life sentence for genocide. We need to always be alert to some of the intrinsic elements of what happened in Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime. The Khmer Rouge killed ...

But painful memories still endure of the murderous Khmer Rouge's time in power under the leadership of Pol Pot in the 1970s, when 2 million people – one-fourth of the population – died in the regime's ...

Former Khmer Rouge official Khieu Samphan, pictured here in 2010, had been convicted of genocide in 2018 The special tribunal in Cambodia set up to examine atrocities under the fanatical rule of ...