Earlier this month a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal extended the prison sentence for a Khmer Rouge prison chief from 19 years to life. Sichan Siv, who escaped the “killing fields” of Cambodia to work ...

Cambodia's National Assembly has unanimously approved a bill that increases penalties for people who deny crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge regime. The law would impose sentences of up to ...

The new legislation replaces a 2013 bill, which also imposed penalties on individuals who denied the crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge era. In addition to prison sentences of from six months to ...