It may sound absurd at this point, but during the time of the Khmer Rouge regime many Western scholars discounted the reports of human rights atrocities in Cambodia. French priest Fr François Ponchaud ...

The Cabinet office said the proposed law aims to prevent the recurrence of such events and to provide justice for victims of the Khmer Rouge. The seven-article bill, which needs approval by ...

Fr François Ponchaud – who died in France aged 86 last week – has been remembered by colleagues and friends as a Catholic priest who worked tirelessly to revive Cambodia from the 1975-79 devastation ...

The Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia marked one of the 20th century’s darkest periods, resulting in the deaths of millions. This video examines the roots of the regime, their brutal policies ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday (Jan 25).

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85. Ponchaud spent 56 years of his life as a missionary in Cambodia, and ...

The Cabinet office said the proposed law aims to prevent the recurrence of such events and to provide justice for victims of the Khmer Rouge. It is almost certainly going to pass because the ...

It has been almost a year since the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan drew easy parallels to the U.S. exit from South Vietnam almost a half-century before ...

Known around the world as a direct witness to the Khmer Rouge seizure of power in 1975, which forced him into exile, he wrote Cambodge année zéro (Cambodia: Year Zero), a key book on those ...

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