| 单词 | Khmer Rouge |
| 例句 | The Khmer Rouge’s Kampuchea does not permit the celebration of the New Year or any other holidays. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge soldier sneers at the man and pushes him to another Khmer Rouge soldier standing beside him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In slow motion, my skin decomposes until there is nothing left and it mixes with the dirt, becoming Khmer Rouge top- soil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the villagers there have been many discussions about the Khmer Rouge closing in on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, your uncles talked the chief into arranging for us to be picked up by a Khmer Rouge truck. The truck will take us to Battambang. That is where your grandmother lives.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After I finish my small portion, I lie back down and leave the world of the Khmer Rouge soldiers behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While I pretend to listen, I wonder why the Khmer Rouge fears the Youns if we can defeat them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Leang and Uncle Heang say that since the Khmer Rouge have won the war, the soldiers removed the old village chief and replaced him with a Khmer Rouge cadre. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding on to my hate for the Khmer Rouge also allows me to go on living the mundane details of life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know this Khmer Rouge soldier!” she screams. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Last month, in another part of the forest the Khmer Rouge razed to create more farmland, I found an armadillo curled up in ball, its shell burnt and crisp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers were moving them up the mountain where they would be under total Khmer Rouge control, isolated from the world and cut off from all the escape routes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the Khmer Rouge ban on religion, they are able to continue to practice Buddhism in secret. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried steel bars, axes, knives, wooden stakes, and hammers— all the weapons used by the Khmer Rouge soldiers to kill their victims. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were awakened by gunshots fired into the distant sky by the Khmer Rouge, but I was so tired I slept through it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is two years since the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh with their trucks; four months since the soldiers took Pa away and Kim became head of our household. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was a Khmer Rouge soldier. He deserved to die. Too bad they are not ali dead,” I say vehemently to Pithy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge soldiers surely feel these people betrayed them by staying with the Youns.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The village men say the Khmer Rouge soldiers are all around us, some even hiding in the village or in nearby woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We do not know whether they were supporters of the Khmer Rouge or if they were base people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice quivering, he tells her the Khmer Rouge soldiers are crossing the river and will be upon them any minute. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder what happened to the mighty Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He says somehow the Youns have captured a Khmer Rouge soldier and are holding him there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then one Khmer Rouge soldier roughly jerks a bag off of one man’s shoulder and dumps its contents on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Four years ago, on April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh, a course that eventually brought us here to Pursat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They look like an older version of the Khmer Rouge soldiers that stormed into our city, except they do not carry guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I have not heard anyone laugh genuinely since the Khmer Rouge takeover. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, the Khmer Rouge cadres were different in every province. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge soldiers believe that eating the livers of their enemy will give them strength and power. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the Khmer Rouge planted so many landmines and drew no maps of where these mines are, now many people are injured or killed traversing these areas. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They say the Youns marched into Cambodia only three weeks ago, on January 25, and through their artillery power and army defeated the Khmer Rouge, sending Pol Pot and his men running into the jungles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months after Khouy and Meng left, rumors that the Youns, or Vietnamese, have tried to invade Cambodia cause the Khmer Rouge to take many teenage boys and girls from their homes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Youns moved closer and closer, Khmer Rouge soldiers pushed them farther into the jungle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Cambodians are trekking on foot to the north, crossing dangerous mined fields and Khmer Rouge control zones, with little food and water, to go to Thailand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I eat with great anxiety and urgency, fearing the Khmer Rouge soldiers will come and take it all away from me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, we will leave with only the clothes in our bags, trek down the mountain, and wait for a Khmer Rouge truck to pick us up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There have been rumors in the village that Pa was not killed in a Khmer Rouge mass execution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The water washes away the dirt, but it will never put out the fire of hate I have for the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We are in the middle of nowhere and are highly vulnerable to a Khmer Rouge attack. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They come to Phnom Penh to escape the Khmer Rouge, who still control parts of the countryside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stories about victims of the Khmer Rouge attack spread like fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell tales of Pa forming his own army, trying to recruit more soldiers to fight the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the groups, a secret Communist faction—the Khmer Rouge—launched an armed struggle against the Cambodian government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She is a year older than I was when the Khmer Rouge took over the country three years ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers come by and yell at us to keep moving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the Khmer Rouge has won the war and its government is called “the Angkar.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on we hear the Khmer Rouge soldiers had killed two people inside the temple and wounded many more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of the crowd, our wagon passes the Khmer Rouge village without stopping. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa does not fear the Khmer Rouge soldiers will want Meng to join the army because he is physically weak, so Pa allows him to stay unmarried. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the land is dry, having been neglected during the Khmer Rouge rule, and produces hardly any fruit. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain was, and still remains, our friend, even under the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Having lost all hope of escaping the Khmer Rouge, many went to the infirmary to die. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We spend the night in the dark, afraid that any light might signal our whereabouts to the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge are less likely to recruit him if they know he has a wife who will give sons to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a Khmer Rouge hospital, people moaned and whimpered in pain but did not scream. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How fearful she must be now—if she is alive—that the Youns, our enemy, have invaded Kampuchea, and as a result, stopped the Khmer Rouge from killing more Cambodians. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the stories I have heard of how the Khmer Rouge kill their victims come back to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through his wet eyelashes, he sees two Khmer Rouge soldiers, their rifles slung across their backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eastern provinces, the Khmer Rouge cadres were more moderate and humane: the work hours were generally shorter, the food rations were larger, and the soldiers did not kill the villagers indiscriminately. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems as if every three months the Khmer Rouge has either increased or decreased our food ration without warning or explanation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Keav, and now Pa, one by one, the Khmer Rouge is killing my family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a Khmer Rouge soldier approaches us, my stomach twists into tight knots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge government also bans the practice of religion. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Met Bong says he is the one responsible for bringing the Khmer Rouge to power. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They are all base people and the Khmer Rouge cadres. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers attacks a random village, raids the houses, kills a few people, and then ducks back into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, I have heard of Pol Pot but I never knew exactly what his position with the Angkar was. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge body convulses and trembles, as if electricity is traveling to the legs, arms, and fingers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Met Bong picks a rifle from the pile, the same kind I have seen many times before on the shoulders of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, they fear the Khmer Rouge might come to power again and kill more people until no one is left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven months after the Khmer Rouge forcefully evacuated us from our home in Phnom Penh we arrive in the village of Ro Leap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Opposite the soldiers, Pa straightens his shoulders, and for the first time since the Khmer Rouge takeover, he stands tall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She still wore the black Khmer Rouge pajama shirt and pants, but her hair was growing out of the blunt Khmer Rouge cut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge considers them uncorrupted model citizens for their new society. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m also afraid of stepping on a landmine, which the villagers say Khmer Rouge soldiers plant after an attack, maiming and killing people long after they have fled. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new arrivals told him of the evacuation and how the Khmer Rouge forced everyone to leave all the cities, including Phnom Penh, Battam- bang, and Siem Reap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a year while I was at the camp, Met Bong told me everyday the Youns were attacking Cambodia and that the mighty Khmer Rouge army would defeat them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was the Khmer Rouge soldier in my village. He killed my husband and baby! I will avenge them!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking long, casual strides, they walk without fear as we did in Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the many crimes that exist in the Khmer Rouge society, bartering for food is viewed as an act of treason. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they fall asleep that night, my brothers practice jumping out of the second floor to plan their escape route in case of a Khmer Rouge attack. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z People say the Khmer Rouge buried corpses next to them and now the palm milk is pink like thin blood and the fruit tastes like human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Khouy, who is only sixteen, does not want to, but Pa says he must to stay out of the Khmer Rouge army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He reports that when the villagers heard about this, hundreds of them rushed to the jail and demanded that the Khmer Rouge soldier be released to them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of five or six Khmer Rouge soldiers walk on either side of the villagers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To instill a sense of loyalty to the Angkar and break what the Khmer Rouge views as an inadequate urban work ethic, the new people are given the hardest work and the longest hours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Kim says the Khmer Rouge terror has taken a new toll. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as a ten-year-old boy he understood how brave our uncle was to beg the new Khmer Rouge village chief to permit us to stay. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rockets have stopped, but the Khmer Rouge soldiers are getting closer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anxiety spreads through my body at the sight of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like me, she wears the Khmer Rouge clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sensing my fear, Kim tells me the route Meng took to Vietnam is very safe, and does not cross any Khmer Rouge zones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On this day, all is quiet and yet I nervously put one foot in front of the other, my eyes scanning the trees and bushes around me for signs of the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of us in the line, Khmer Rouge soldiers yell something to the crowd, but I cannot hear what they say. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing at my own, I wonder when I will also get out of the Khmer Rouge uniform and into some colorful clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He is dark and wears the black clothes of the Khmer Rouge—the black clothes I still wear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge believes one individual should not have what the rest of the country does not have. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the Khmer Rouge’s power is just another one of Pol Pot’s many lies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A Khmer Rouge soldier comes over to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells us that the Youns have retaken our village from the Khmer Rouge a few hours ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easier to feel no pity for the dead if I think of them as all Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Khmer Rouge agrarian society, only good workers are valuable, all others are expendable. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people step on landmines and die on the way or are captured by the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first-class citizenry comprises the chief, who has authority over the whole village, his aides, and the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Khmer Rouge lied. They have won the war, and we cannot go back. You must stop thinking we can go back. You have to forget Phnom Penh.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her faded black Khmer Rouge pajama clothes hang loosely on her thin body as her back bends over the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every night she told us that a Khmer Rouge soldier could kill twenty Youn soldiers because our soldiers are better and braver fighters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years living under the Khmer Rouge regime has taught us that some things are better left unsaid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The “enemy,” a Khmer Rouge soldier or a wild beast, a monster or a ghostly man-creature, comes after me with knives, guns, axes, machetes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have decided that this Khmer Rouge will be executed for his crimes. His blood will avenge the innocent people he has slaughtered. We are asking for volunteers to be the executioners.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Though risky because the Khmer Rouge may still control sections of the route, we will travel by foot again and hope to be reunited with our relatives. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of silence, over one million people perished during the reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Two years later, “The Killing Fields,” about two journalists’ escape from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, won best supporting actor for Haing S. Ngor. The complex history of Asian Americans in movies, from the silent era to ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z He does have memories, traumatic ones, of Khmer Rouge soldiers invading his hometown a decade later, at which point his family fled to Thailand and on to the United States. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z Still, this very limited judicial enterprise, and the momentum that the Duch trial created, have been decisive in allowing, for the first time, a national public debate on the Khmer Rouge era. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It mixes archival video footage, Khmer Rouge propaganda clips and a first-person narration in French. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z A documentary about Cambodia's vibrant pop music scene of the 1950s and '60s that was largely wiped out by the Khmer Rouge. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The legacy of the Khmer Rouge’s genocide looms, but So, who died in 2020, creates plenty of lighthearted moments, too. 11 New Books Coming in August 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z In April 1970, two Americans left the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, on motorbikes, heading for the Kampong Cham province to look for Khmer Rouge guerrillas. 'The Road to Freedom': 2 vanish in Cambodia 2011-09-30T21:37:06Z Simon introduced Son Seng, who had travelled from Cambodia with two grandsons, and was one of the few practitioners of the ceremonial music genre known as kantomming to escape the Khmer Rouge. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But eighty per cent of them were themselves Khmer Rouge, and if they instead had been asked to be perpetrators the overwhelming majority would have obeyed. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But, before that happened, a renegade group of Khmer Rouge officers backed by Vietnam drove the Pol Potists from power. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The old man explains that the Khmer Rouge was determined to establish a form of Communism that was even purer than Chinese Communism under Mao Zedong. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z One recalled his boyhood in Cambodia, the day he saw a river filled with floating corpses, victims of the Khmer Rouge. Teaching “The Odyssey” at San Quentin 2013-12-21T00:00:00Z Every time I hear the words Khmer Rouge I get a little emotional. Late Mass. monk's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors 2010-03-20T23:01:00Z In 2000 dance, like all the arts in Cambodia, was rebuilding after the chaos and destruction of the Khmer Rouge years. Film: ?Dancing Across Borders? From Anne Bass 2010-03-20T04:29:00Z "First They Killed My Father" is about the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime under which more than 1 million people died. Angelina Jolie 'upset' over backlash to Cambodia film casting process 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z He set out to sell them to Cambodian and Thai traders, including a Khmer Rouge official that the Cambodian research team refers to only as Sleeping Giant. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Her latest film as a director, "First They Killed My Father," about the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, under which more than 1 million people died, had its premiere in Cambodia in February. Angelina Jolie puts movies aside for cooking, cleaning up poop 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge endured in Kampot through much of the 90s, much later than other parts of the country, and almost every person I met lost at least one close family member or friend. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z For instance, the woman hired by the U.N. to handle Khmer Rouge victims at the Duch trial was an unrepentant Maoist. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Pich, who lived through the Khmer Rouge years as a child, resists defining his work autobiographically but acknowledges in it traces of his own and his country’s past. Art in Review: ‘Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich’ 2013-05-02T19:18:48Z By then, he had converted to Christianity, and he said he repented of his career as a Khmer Rouge murderer. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z An unknown number of women and men were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge as part of its plan to destroy traditional family structures and build up a new population of faithful cadre. 'They are heroes': Angelina Jolie honours survivors of sexual violence in Cambodia 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, writes about surviving the Khmer Rouge regime in her memoir. Angelina Jolie to Direct Netflix Drama Set in Cambodia 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z All this in an area of Cambodia occupied by the Khmer Rouge as recently as 1995. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z He said he had participated under the threat of his own death and had ultimately fled the Khmer Rouge to avoid being involved in further bloodshed. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z When the Khmer Rouge set up camp here in the 1970s the French beat a retreat, and the villas fell into disrepair. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z The Khmer Rouge murdered close to two million Cambodians in that period. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Was it good for the rest of the surviving Khmer Rouge, including Hun Sen and his crowd? Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “The revival of arts is a powerful symbol of Cambodia’s ability to survive beyond the Khmer Rouge and to recover from their horrific legacy.” Genocide Survivors Compose a Requiem for Cambodia 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z PraCh Ly, a Long Beach native and elder statesman of Cambodian hip-hop, was among the first musicians to speak out about the trauma of the Khmer Rouge era. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z “Bangsokol” is their first collaboration, and it’s also one of the first symphonic works to reckon with the Khmer Rouge era. Genocide Survivors Compose a Requiem for Cambodia 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Also, the range is across the road from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, where the U.N.-supported trial of three former Khmer Rouge leaders is continuing. In Cambodia, a Shooting Range Open to Tourists 2012-11-28T00:08:31Z Her latest film as a director, "First They Killed My Father," about the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, under which more than 1 million people died, had its premiere in Cambodia in February. Angelina Jolie puts movies aside for cooking, cleaning up poop 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Using old, revealing propaganda films and more recent footage, Panh mixes archival images with nonanimated clay figurines that represent the victims of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Oscar nominee fills in ‘The Missing Picture’ of killing fields 2014-04-03T21:02:49Z His upbeat music is an ancient tradition — one endangered by the cultural genocide of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, who starved and executed an estimated 90 percent of Cambodia’s artists and intellectuals. Music Review: Kong Nay at the Season of Cambodia Festival 2013-04-21T21:51:37Z The title in English means "Oh Mighty Mount Dangrek" and refers to the mountainous plateau between the Cambodia-Thailand border that refugees were forced to climb in order to escape the Khmer Rouge regime. Late Mass. monk's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors 2010-03-20T23:01:00Z Says Arn with a dawning realization in the book, “I understand now: the music, the Khmer Rouge make us play so no one can hear the killing.” The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels 2012-07-06T14:00:51Z Duch wasn’t one of the masterminds, but he was their zealous servant, and he was entrusted with the command of S-21, the prison where Khmer Rouge cadres were sent to be purged. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The parents and grandparents in the collection survived the Khmer Rouge genocide, and the new generation isn’t sure where it fits in. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z His family had fled Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, in 1975 as the Khmer Rouge was closing in, and made their way on foot, with seven children, to Vietnam. Angkor Cambodian Bistro Explores Southeast Asia, Gently 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z As Toek Tik recounts it, he was a teenage foot soldier for the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the late 1970s when he first realized that looting ancient statues could be a lucrative trade. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Many of the Cambodians in attendance at the Brooklyn Academy will be hearing some of their country’s traditional instruments, which were forbidden under Khmer Rouge rule, for the first time. Genocide Survivors Compose a Requiem for Cambodia 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z His morning-glory series, for instance, alluded to his family's years of hunger under the Khmer Rouge. Cambodian artist evokes tumult of his homeland 2011-11-17T20:35:05Z The Phnom Penh hotel’s other, more sobering, claim to fame is as a residence for reporters during the Vietnam war and the Khmer Rouge era. Fatale attraction: a cocktail created for Jackie Kennedy in Phnom Penh 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z After the Khmer Rouge withdrew and his master died, Mr. Seng, through an interpreter, said that he realized how important he was to the survival of the tradition, and devoted himself to reviving it. A Consolation of Voices: At the Park Avenue Armory, Mourning the World Over 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z When Ung asks her father why the Khmer Rouge are acting so violently, he answers simply, “Because they are destroyers of things.” 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The mammoth, once-opulent buildings of marble and timber were initially abandoned in the 1940s during the first Indochina war and then again in the 1970s when the Khmer Rouge took them over. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z Panh, who himself is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, added that casting "was done in the most sensitive way possible." Angelina Jolie: Exploitative Child Casting Story Is 'False' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z When a military coup in 1970 begot a government unfriendly to Communists, civil war ensued, presaging the ascendance of Pol Pot and the Communist Khmer Rouge in 1975. Review: ‘Angkor Awakens,’ a Blistering Account of Cambodia’s Painful Past 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He was a practicing surgeon and gynecologist in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge seized control of the country in 1975. 200 years of authenticity (or lack thereof) in casting 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Jolie’s move into directing was designed to complement her activist work, with films about the Bosnian war, a second world war PoW and the Khmer Rouge. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Mam knew her parents had fled the Khmer Rouge — a communist-inspired movement that killed an estimated 2 million of its own citizens between 1975 and '79. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z In the larger of their two assemblages, food offerings sit amid candles and Cambodian-style Buddha statues in memory of the victims of the Khmer Rouge, who slaughtered as many as 2 million Cambodians. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z My mom was a schoolteacher, living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia on April 17, 1975. “A woman with the heart of a tiger”: My mother risked everything to flee from the Khmer Rouge with her children 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z They survived the Khmer Rouge genocide, which is no joke, unless they want it to be. Witty and Soulful Stories From a Writer Who Was Just Getting Started 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The family spoke Khmer at home, but Ms. Yun’s parents didn’t talk much about their days in Cambodia under the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime. A Cambodian Refugee Cooks From Memory at Nyum Bai 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Army helmets and Khmer Rouge shoes made from tires. Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z In pursuit of an agrarian utopia, the Khmer Rouge tried to erase the country's artistic and intellectual heritage. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Kong calls “The Missing Picture” one of the most memorable movies ever made about the Khmer Rouge era. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z She was in her 20s then, caring for three small boys while her husband, a high-ranking army officer, was imprisoned in Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge were closing in on the city. Ratha Chaupoly’s Most Treasured Cooking Tool 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Panh and Him Sophy, the composer of the new work, see art as a necessary part of healing from a tragedy on the scale of the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge. Genocide Survivors Compose a Requiem for Cambodia 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z You say that much of the tribunal crowd preferred to imagine the Khmer Rouge as noble until it went awry and became vile—and that some were outright fellow-travellers. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A conscript for the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, “Lion” is now in his early 60s and diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, officials say. Cambodia Says the Met Museum Has Dozens of Its Looted Antiquities 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “All the intelligent Cambodians either fled the Khmer Rouge or were killed by them,” my Cambodian friend and fixer, Phin Chanda, once said to me, lightly, as if joking. Impossible to Forget: Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z What was interesting to observe at the Khmer Rouge tribunal was that former Western Maoists or fellow-travellers were not transformed, when they became disillusioned with Communism, into skeptical minds. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Marginalized by a lack of infrastructure, a Khmer Rouge presence that endured into the late 1990s, and some of Southeast Asia’s wildest, least-explored terrain, the region remained virtually forbidden to outsiders. Next Stop: In Cambodia, Koh Kong Emerges as an Eco-Tourism Destination 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z After four years, the Khmer Rouge were overthrown. “A woman with the heart of a tiger”: My mother risked everything to flee from the Khmer Rouge with her children 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The hope is that the dance troupe that survived the Khmer Rouge will keep the country's traditions alive for the next generation. Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z “A Khmer Rouge film is always a slogan.” Oscar nominee fills in ‘The Missing Picture’ of killing fields 2014-04-03T21:02:49Z Children who committed crimes under the direction of the Khmer Rouge have not been prosecuted. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z That doesn’t lessen the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z By 1972, as Cambodia fell into civil war, he was pressed into service by the Khmer Rouge, which would later destroy the country’s economy and kill its professional classes. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z By turns dark and funny, “Afterparties” explores the ways in which the trauma endured by Cambodian refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge genocide has echoed across generations. National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z He said he fled the Khmer Rouge around 1977 and, while hiding in the jungle, discovered many abandoned temples. Cambodia Says Looter Helping It Reclaim Stolen Artifacts Has Died 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Similarly, S-21 itself, a prison mostly devoted to the killing of Khmer Rouge by Khmer Rouge, has become the ambiguous genocide museum in Cambodia. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It will also become an early casualty of the Khmer Rouge. Review: Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Everything, he says, is part of the “mirage”, a word that crops up repeatedly. Just as the government could not resist meddling with the UN mission, so too with the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Miracle or mirage? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In 2009, thirty years after he fled S-21, he was the first Khmer Rouge figure to be brought to trial before a newly established, U.N.-run tribunal in Phnom Penh. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Cambodia continues to recover from devastation wrought by the Khmer Rouge and a civil war that started in the 1970s, when an estimated one in four Cambodians died. Homestay among the ruins in Cambodia 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Shortly afterwards, U.S. troops invaded from Vietnam and war engulfed the country, leading to the takeover by the genocidal Khmer Rouge in 1975. U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z So’s own parents escaped Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge genocide and eventually settled in Stockton, Calif., where So was born and raised. Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Panh's film, based on his nightmarish memoir "The Elimination," documents his own family's experience under the heavy-handed Communist Party's Khmer Rouge that resulted in the death of his parents and sisters. Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize 2013-05-25T18:43:08Z Sambath's father and brother were slain by Khmer Rouge militants, and his mother died in childbirth after her forced marriage to a militiaman. 'Enemies of the People': One man's quest for truth about Cambodia's 'killing fields' 2011-01-20T22:24:05Z Lots of good things including La Compagnie Carabose's Fire Gardens in Campbell Park and Rouge, a new show from Cambodia, exploring the legacy of the Khmer Rouge. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-07-13T12:22:40Z One Cambodian American fan, for instance, told Mam that watching the "Sva Rom Monkiss" video with his father, a Khmer Rouge survivor, enabled the two to reconcile a painful past. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z When the chef Chinchakriya Un was just a baby, her family left Cambodia as refugees, fleeing the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z We liked out-of-the-way places; my research often took us to absurd locations like the Democratic Republic of Congo near rebel-held territory or old Khmer Rouge bases on the Thai-Cambodian border. How Doing Nothing Became the Ultimate Family Vacation 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Shortly afterwards, U.S. troops invaded from Vietnam and war engulfed the country, leading to the takeover by the genocidal Khmer Rouge in 1975. U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Early on, a Khmer Rouge soldier urges her to “become someone else” and calls her Mei, an act of both erasure and protection, freeing her from the crimes of her educated parents. Madeleine Thien’s New Novel of Communist Occupation Turns Inward 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The museum adjoins the Royal University of Fine Arts, both of which were closed in the 1970s under the brutal Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Browsing Boutiques in a Creative Corner of Phnom Penh 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z He used small clay figures intercut with historical footage to tell the story of how his family perished in the Khmer Rouge's brutal revolution after their 1975 capture of Phnom Penh. Palestinian film of love and betrayal breaks new ground at Cannes 2013-05-20T17:02:36Z There was silence too, over the Khmer Rouge and its killing fields in Cambodia. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Additional reporting by Phok Dorn of the Cambodia Daily newspaper Khmer Rouge survivors 'What did I do that made him torture me?' Cambodia Water Festival turns to tragedy in Phnom Penh 2010-11-23T00:30:00Z By his account, the Khmer Rouge government, which he describes as “clean, clear-sighted and peaceful,” was determined to be more Communist than Communist China by abolishing all private property. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z From 1976 on, he was essentially a Khmer Rouge killing Khmer Rouge. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A heart-wrenching personal account of the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s, it relies on clay figures, dioramas, archival footage and a poetic French-language narration to tell its story. Carpetbagger: Divisions in the Foreign-Language Category 2014-01-16T16:09:55Z The Khmer Rouge era left more than 1.7 million people dead, mostly from starvation, medical neglect, slave-like working conditions and execution. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z Son Seng, a 74-year-old Cambodian, studied professional mourning with a master teacher as the Khmer Rouge took control, when he kept his instruments buried beneath his teacher’s house. A Consolation of Voices: At the Park Avenue Armory, Mourning the World Over 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The documentary "Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll" recounts the Phnom Penh pop scene, from Cambodia's independence from France in 1953 until the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in the 1970s. 'Don't Think I've Forgotten' a deft look back at Cambodia's pop scene He came back to Cambodia at age 6, when the Khmer Rouge was still a presence. Homestay among the ruins in Cambodia 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The title “The Missing Picture” was partly inspired by Panh’s search for a photograph of an execution that a Khmer Rouge guard once told him about. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z However, the demands of international justice and an insistent daughter force him into memoir mode, which means propelling the play into a sustained flashback, set in the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s. Review: Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z A rock show, a family tragedy and a historical mystery, Lauren Yee’s prizewinning play finds a California father and daughter meeting again in Cambodia, reinvestigating the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Eventually it stops at a walled perimeter, where, nearly 15 years after Khmer Rouge forces surrendered and peace officially returned to Cambodia, the distinctive crack of a Kalashnikov can be heard echoing into the distance. In Cambodia, a Shooting Range Open to Tourists 2012-11-28T00:08:31Z The Khmer Rouge had set out to eradicate everything with a hint of Western influence. 'Don't Think I've Forgotten' a deft look back at Cambodia's pop scene Mr. Thet Sambath’s father and brother were slain by Khmer Rouge militants, and his mother died in childbirth after her forced marriage to a militiaman. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z The Vietnamese were trying to justify their occupation by memorializing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Impossible to Forget: Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z The former Khmer Rouge cadre was a somewhat unpromising 30-something with one eye—he lost the other in battle—when the Vietnamese installed him as prime minister in 1985. Miracle or mirage? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z "First They Killed My Father" is about the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime under which more than 1 million people died. Angelina Jolie 'upset' over backlash to Cambodia film casting process 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge executed an estimated 90 percent of Cambodia’s classical dancers, but for Cambodians, the tradition was far too precious to lose. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z King Norodom Sihanouk, who died in October, led the country between independence and the time before the Khmer Rouge took over. Cambodia fest in NYC weaves art over rough history 2013-04-12T04:13:08Z Iida’s accompanying essay reveals that “Strange Tale” is a tribute to her adopted uncle Nan, a 48-year-old Cambodian man who, as a teenager under the Khmer Rouge, covertly studied French and chemistry. Review: Seattle artist creates entire worlds with paper and scissors 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Because R.F.K. has ended the Vietnam War early, Pol Pot never comes to power in Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge massacres are averted. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z Lek’s parent’s were adolescents when the totalitarian Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975, emptying out cities and systematically killing the country’s professional and intellectual classes. A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z On the run and cut off from the world, Hin Nie and his unit of insurgents foraged for food and hunted for tiger skins to pay the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z The site was an ammunition warehouse during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s before being turned into a school and all of the ordnance was thought to have been removed, Chheang Heng said. Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian school 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Since he came to power following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime four decades ago, Hun Sen's rule has become increasingly authoritarian, dismantling opponents by jailing or exiling them. Cambodia: PM's son Hun Manet appointed next ruler in royal formality 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Since he came to power following the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime four decades ago, Hun Sen's rule has become increasingly authoritarian. Hun Sen: Cambodia election result confirms expected win for PM 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z After the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979, the couple made their way to refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines. A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Guerrillas of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge controlled pockets on Cambodia's eastern border. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z All property deeds were destroyed in the Khmer Rouge revolution. Cambodia election: 'This was more of a coronation than an election' 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Hun Sen had been a middle-ranking commander in the radical communist Khmer Rouge responsible for genocide in the 1970s before defecting to Vietnam. Hun Sen is the longest serving leader in Asia. He’s purged critics and is set to win Cambodian polls 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z But the 70-year-old former communist Khmer Rouge fighter and Asia’s longest-serving leader says he is ready to hand the premiership to his oldest son, Hun Manet, a graduate of the U.S. Cambodian leader’s son, a West Point grad, set to take reins of power — but will he bring change? 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z But the Khmer Rouge’s four-year reign of terror casts a long — and often silent — shadow. A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge allowed Hin Nie and his battalion to stay. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z "Hun Manet's biggest challenge will be that my generation is very different from previous ones, who were traumatised by the Khmer Rouge," he says. Cambodia election: 'This was more of a coronation than an election' 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z But the 70-year-old former communist Khmer Rouge fighter and Asia’s longest-serving leader says he is ready to hand the premiership to his oldest son, Hun Manet, a four-star general who heads the country’s army. Autocratic Cambodian leader paving way for son, a West Point graduate with PhD in economics, to rule 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Hun Sen joined the Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for Phnom Penh in 1975. Cambodian leader’s son, a West Point grad, set to take reins of power — but will he bring change? 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The bombardment shown in “Refuge” was inspired by an anecdote from the book, in which her father attempts to locate his family in the middle of crossfire during the fall of the Khmer Rouge. A Long Beach-born painter captures the surrealism of the Cambodian American experience 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z While the fear of tigers was real - tigers killed three people in the camp - the fear of the Khmer Rouge was even greater. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z A former Khmer Rouge official who defected to Vietnam before the regime's fall, his survivalist grip on power has led to his boast that he is the world's longest-serving prime minister. Cambodia faces rigged election as Hun Sen extends total control 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Hun Sen joined Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for Phnom Penh in 1975. Autocratic Cambodian leader paving way for son, a West Point graduate with PhD in economics, to rule 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Kissinger additionally was accused of orchestrating the expansion of the conflict into Laos and Cambodia, enabling the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians. Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger celebrates 100th birthday, still active in global affairs 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z He said such language mirrored the ideology taught by the communist Khmer Rouge to poor farmers, especially in Ratanakiri province, in the early days of their revolutionary struggle before taking power in April 1975. Cambodian land activists arrested for allegedly inciting farmers to hate the rich 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z In 1982, they were singing carols one night, which some local Khmer Rouge heard from a distance. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z The UN set Cambodia up to be a democracy in the 1990s after the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime - and the constitution upholds this. Cambodia faces rigged election as Hun Sen extends total control 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Sihanouk then allied himself with the Cambodian communist group, the Khmer Rouge. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Cambodia was supported by the UN and Western countries to become a liberal democracy in the 1990s, after the horrors of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia: Opposition Candlelight Party barred from July vote 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Hun Sen joined the Khmer Rouge in 1970 when it was fighting against a pro-American government but defected from the group in 1977 and allied himself with a resistance movement backed by neighboring Vietnam. Cambodian land activists arrested for allegedly inciting farmers to hate the rich 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Vietnamese communists also heard the singing and approached, he says, but Fulro and the Khmer Rouge chased them away. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z In more modern times, the bad feeling has lingered, as Cambodia’s development, hindered by French colonialism and, in the 1970s, the brutal rule of the communist Khmer Rouge, has fallen well behind Thailand’s. Cambodia’s brand-new stadium hosts opening of SEA Games 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Under the rule of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader and an admirer of Mao Zedong, Cambodia embarked on a program to rebuild itself as the perfect communist state. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Despite emerging evidence of brutality, Carter waited until 1978 to declare that Cambodia’s bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge was “the worst violator of human rights in the world.” Political prisoners share how Jimmy Carter saved their lives 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Land ownership was abolished during the rule of the Khmer Rouge and land titles were lost, making ownership a free-for-all when the communist group lost power. Cambodian land activists arrested for allegedly inciting farmers to hate the rich 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z But apart from a few local Khmer Rouge and Cambodian soldiers, hardly anyone was aware the Fulro fighters were still in the jungle. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Khmer Rouge guerrillas as “a national, patriotic movement, and therefore I was also in that movement.” Eyeing the exit, long-serving Cambodian leader keeps it all in the family 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge seized private property and forced city dwellers to relocate to the countryside. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Although Cambodia and Thailand generally get along, there have been occasional flashpoints, including Thailand’s support of the Khmer Rouge regime. Long Beach's new year festival: Some Cambodian Americans aren't happy with the name Sankranta 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z He first went on trial in 2011 and was convicted in 2014 for crimes against humanity over atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime and got a life sentence. Factbox: A look at past state leaders who faced international justice 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z They wanted to know if he was Khmer Rouge. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z “I was only a simple Khmer Rouge,” he added, bristling when asked about the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal policies and harsh repression of opponents. Eyeing the exit, long-serving Cambodian leader keeps it all in the family 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Hun Sen had been a middle-ranking commander in the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the 1970s before defecting to Vietnam. Long-serving Cambodian leader Hun Sen hints at retirement 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Nearly five decades ago, Cambodian refugees who fled the murderous Khmer Rouge regime began settling in Long Beach. Long Beach's new year festival: Some Cambodian Americans aren't happy with the name Sankranta 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z An obstetrician/gynecologist in his native Cambodia, he and his wife were imprisoned and tortured by the Khmer Rouge rebels who had violently taken over the government in 1975. 5 Oscar winners of Asian descent you might not have known 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Thayer reported in the Phnom Penh Post that the group were still waiting for instructions from their leader who, unknown to them, had been executed by the Khmer Rouge 17 years earlier. Vietnam War: The pastor who survived 17 years in forgotten jungle army 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z To escape bloody internal Khmer Rouge purges, Mr. Hun Sen defected in 1977, fleeing east across the border into Vietnam where he was recruited for a force to return to Cambodia and oust the regime. Eyeing the exit, long-serving Cambodian leader keeps it all in the family 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z When Vietnam ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, he quickly became a senior member of the new Cambodian government installed by Hanoi. Long-serving Cambodian leader Hun Sen hints at retirement 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z However, many of Cambodia's other temples were looted during the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s, and the turmoil that continued for decades. Cambodia: Angkorian crown jewellery handed over in London 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge were ousted from power in 1979 by an invasion by neighboring Communist Vietnam. Convicted Khmer Rouge leader moved to Cambodian state prison 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Earlier that year, his Khmer Rouge contacts had taken him to witness an outdoor show trial in which Pol Pot, the movement’s founder, was denounced by comrades. Nate Thayer, Bold Reporter Who Interviewed Pol Pot, Dies at 62 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z In January 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia, chased Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge fighters into the jungle, and installed Mr. Hun Sen as Cambodia’s foreign minister. Eyeing the exit, long-serving Cambodian leader keeps it all in the family 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z His work also added important historical details to the “killing fields” legacy of the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-1979 rule. Nate Thayer, journalist who landed Pol Pot interview, dies at 62 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot committed suicide last year by taking pills after learning that his comrades had offered to hand him over to the United States for trial, a Hong Kong-based magazine reported Wednesday. Nate Thayer, last journalist to interview murderous Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, dies 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The leader of the Communist Khmer Rouge, under whose regime some 2 million Cambodians died, shocked the world by saying said his “conscience is clear.” Nate Thayer, reporter who interviewed Pol Pot, dies 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Thayer spent many months writing a book about the Khmer Rouge titled “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir From Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge,” which offered vivid descriptions of the trial and interview. Nate Thayer, Bold Reporter Who Interviewed Pol Pot, Dies at 62 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The government of Hun Sen, the world’s longest-serving prime minister and a former functionary for the murderous Khmer Rouge, has been tied to systemic corruption and the erasure of human rights. They Were Surrogates. Now They Must Raise the Children. 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z A year earlier, Mr. Thayer convinced members of the surviving Khmer Rouge factions that international coverage was needed for Pol Pot’s reckoning before those former guerrillas who had turned against him. Nate Thayer, journalist who landed Pol Pot interview, dies at 62 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The leader of the Communist Khmer Rouge, under whose regime some 2 million Cambodians died, shocked the world by saying his “conscience is clear.” Nate Thayer, last journalist to interview murderous Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, dies 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “By no means a Khmer Rouge apologist, he presented a straight, unvarnished picture of the past and present, and confronted Pol Pot with the evidence that he was a mass murderer.” Nate Thayer, reporter who interviewed Pol Pot, dies 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z There he focused on the continuing civil war in Cambodia in which Pol Pot’s guerrillas were fighting the Vietnamese-backed government that had driven the Khmer Rouge from power. Nate Thayer, Bold Reporter Who Interviewed Pol Pot, Dies at 62 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Many speculated the former mid-level Khmer Rouge commander would feature his own mug on the timepiece in the narcissistic vein of autocratic leaders in the past, like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein or Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Watches, daggers and cricket ice cream: Asian summit treats 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z What pushed him on was personal: his deep empathy for the country and its past horrors under the Khmer Rouge. Nate Thayer, journalist who landed Pol Pot interview, dies at 62 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z His boys, then 14, listened intently to unsparing and brutal stories of the torture center run by the Khmer Rouge. Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ tourists prefer the gloomy and macabre 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z She was 13 when the communist Khmer Rouge, which would eventually kill almost 2 million people, took over Cambodia in 1975. A new anti-communism museum in D.C. tallies 100 million victims of Marx’s ideology 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Thayer interviewed Pol Pot in October 1997 after months of clandestine meetings with Khmer Rouge guerrillas, whom Pol Pot led. Nate Thayer, Bold Reporter Who Interviewed Pol Pot, Dies at 62 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Only three people were convicted, and many of the Khmer Rouge’s senior figures — including its notorious top leader, Pol Pot — were long dead by the time the court was created. Your Friday Briefing: Men Flee Russian Conscription 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge tribunal came out of a uniquely optimistic period in international relations, in the late 1990s. Cambodia: Closure of Khmer Rouge trial leaves mixed legacy 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia — a United Nations-backed tribunal charged with prosecuting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime — held its final hearing. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z His co-defendant Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge’s No. 2 leader and chief ideologist, was convicted twice and received the same life sentence. Khmer Rouge tribunal ending work after 16 years, 3 judgments 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z As a child, he was forced to work in Khmer Rouge camps for more than three years until their rule ended in 1979. Cambodian, Japanese among winners of Magsaysay Awards 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z During this time, in an event that consumed much of his later life, two fellow photographers headed on motorcycles down an empty road in Cambodia in search of Khmer Rouge guerrillas and never returned. Tim Page, Gonzo Photographer of Vietnam War, Is Dead at 78 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Survivors of the Khmer Rouge have mixed feelings about the ECCC. Cambodia: Closure of Khmer Rouge trial leaves mixed legacy 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Many of the Khmer Rouge’s senior figures — including its notorious top leader, Pol Pot — were long dead by the time the court was created. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Four other suspects, middle-ranking Khmer Rouge leaders, escaped prosecution because of a split among the tribunal’s jurists. Khmer Rouge tribunal ending work after 16 years, 3 judgments 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z An ex-con who was paroled in California was recently deported to Cambodia — a country he left as an infant refugee while his family fled the Khmer Rouge. Ex-con deported to Cambodia despite spending entire life in U.S. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Williams said organized looting networks — including looters affiliated with the Khmer Rouge — sent the statues to Douglas Latchford, a well-known antiquities dealer, who then sold them to western dealers, collectors and institutions. Cambodian ambassador: Looted artworks are ‘souls’ of culture 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Khieu Samphan was one of a small group of Khmer Rouge leaders prosecuted by the unique hybrid court comprised of Cambodian and international judges and lawyers. Cambodia: Closure of Khmer Rouge trial leaves mixed legacy 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Khmer Rouge leaders have died,” said Yun Bin, 67, who was beaten and left for dead in a ditch by the regime’s cadres. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Hun Sen himself was a middle-ranking commander with the Khmer Rouge before defecting while the group was still in power, and several senior members of his ruling Cambodian People’s Party share similar backgrounds. Khmer Rouge tribunal ending work after 16 years, 3 judgments 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp, and he was 11 years old when his family eventually immigrated to the United States. Californians Remember Vin Scully 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp. A Cambodian American police officer helps his community heal and look forward 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z That institution acquired the sculpture in 1973, two years before Cambodia was plunged into the horrors of Khmer Rouge rule. At the Sackler Gallery, a statue of Krishna has a complex tale to tell 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Khieu Samphan, urbane and multilingual, was the nominal leader and presentable face of the Khmer Rouge and a member of its tight-knit inner circle. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Hun Sen was the prime minister in a Vietnam-installed Communist government after the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge, which had caused the deaths of around two million people in the late 1970s. Cambodia Sends U.S. Activist and Other Opposition Members to Prison 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z He rose to prominence in the 1980s, after the defeat of the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime, and cemented his hold on power in the 1990s. Cambodian court jails American lawyer, dozens of others for treason 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It was a former high school turned torture prison under the communist Khmer Rouge regime. Putsata Reang finds home with and away from her mom in memoir ‘Ma and Me’ 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z He fled Cambodia in 1975 when Pol Pot and his brutal Khmer Rouge forces took control of the country. In storied New England mill city, Cambodian Americans make political history 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Only in the last decade have Cambodian schools begun to teach students about the Khmer Rouge period, spurred in part by the existence of the tribunal. 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z After their ouster, the Khmer Rouge waged a jungle insurgency until the United Nations brokered a deal and set up a Western-style democracy with political freedoms and human rights guarantees. Cambodia Sends U.S. Activist and Other Opposition Members to Prison 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z He also insisted that if the statues had not been removed from Cambodia they would most likely, as he put it, have been shot up for target practice by the Khmer Rouge. The long struggle to return Cambodia's looted treasures 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Heng, a GOP candidate from Fresno who has also received attention in the race, is the daughter of Chinese and Cambodian immigrants who fled the Khmer Rouge. Democrats loved hating on Devin Nunes. Now there's a six-way race to replace him 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z His father, a captain in the Cambodian army, was executed by the Khmer Rouge. In storied New England mill city, Cambodian Americans make political history 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “We have at least five million survivors — one third of the population — who suffered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge whose stories have not even been heard or documented.” 16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Japan also provided money to the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal. Japan’s PM visits Cambodia, also one of China’s key partners 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The book follows a community of Cambodian Americans living mostly in the Central Valley and deals with reincarnation, the inherited trauma of the Khmer Rouge era, queerness and the intricacies of family life. Anthony Veasna So, Diane Seuss among National Book Critics Circle Award winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Most of the textbooks that educated today’s young adults touched lightly on the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z For Sam Sophal, who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide only because his mother bribed Khmer Rouge executioners with her silver watch, the promise of peace was irresistible. 'Mission impossible': U.N. in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z They overthrew the Khmer Rouge and installed a less repressive government. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Schanberg, who died in 2016, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Cambodia’s fall to the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. New York Times Wins 2 Polk Awards for Investigative Reporting 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z As a New York Times foreign correspondent in 1975, he chronicled Cambodia’s fall to the brutal Khmer Rouge, reporting that inspired the film “The Killing Fields.” Washington Post wins two Polk Awards for journalism on Jan. 6 and ‘Pegasus Project’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Such executions were common in Democratic Kampuchea, as the Khmer Rouge renamed the country, where an agrarian utopia was to replace a decadent capitalism. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z A Vietnamese invasion toppled the Khmer Rouge in 1979, setting off a war in which the ousted Maoists and two other factions battled the invaders and their Cambodian allies. 'Mission impossible': U.N. in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z In 1975, Communist rebels known as the Khmer Rouge set up a brutal Communist government under the leadership of Pol Pot. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Could those who concocted this sentence ever recognize their kinship with the moral purifiers of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge? Opinion | Even by today’s standard of campus cowardice and conformity, this repulsive episode is noteworthy 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “I wanted to make a world come alive,” said Panh, who came to Paris in 1990 after fleeing the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in his home country. Two Asian films explore burden of past violence at Berlin Film Festival 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z After his mother died of starvation, he had served in the very force that had precipitated her death: the Khmer Rouge. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z He authored four books about the country including, “Extraordinary Justice: Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunals.” Prime minister grooms West Point-educated son to take over in Cambodia 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z During the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s, the community devastated, as the regime lashed out against well-educated, urban merchants. Cambodian lion dancers cling to craft amid COVID pandemic 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The elections were part of a peace process following the fall of the Khmer Rouge and three decades of civil war. Cambodian prince and politician Norodom Ranariddh dies at 77 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Organized networks, often headed by members of the military or the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot’s radical communist movement, broke statues from their pedestals. Global hunt for looted cultural treasures leads to offshore trusts 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Days before, his son-in-law had been killed by a Khmer Rouge mine. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Its leaders echoed Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge with warnings that “rivers of blood” would flow after their victory, and that as many as 1 million Peruvians might be put to death. This week’s passages 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z He was also able to improve his reputation with some meaningful foreign policy accomplishments, including the rescue of American hostages held by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. When foreign policy goes south: Biden, Afghanistan and the lessons of history 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z They were found to have “encouraged, incited, and legitimized” the criminal polices of the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He was “found to have encouraged, incited, and legitimized criminal policies and to have made a significant contribution to crimes committed” by the Khmer Rouge. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z “My father, my family members, were killed by the Khmer Rouge.” ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In addition, she assisted potential witnesses at a trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, where she also testified as a victim. Charged With Treason, a Genocide Survivor Opts to Fight, Not Flee 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Both men were murdered days later by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. Landmine-sniffing rat continues legacy of fallen hero 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Other major figures died before being brought to trial, including Pol Pot, the supreme leader of the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The tribunal was established at Cambodia’s behest to bring to justice the leaders of the Khmer Rouge during its time in power. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z For those who emerged from the Khmer Rouge era and the years of civil war, mere survival was an accomplishment. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Khieu Samphan is now the last living leader of the Khmer Rouge, and his pro forma appeal of his conviction and life sentence is the last major order of business of the long-running tribunal. Charged With Treason, a Genocide Survivor Opts to Fight, Not Flee 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Theary Cambodian Foods owner Theary Ngeth, who fled Cambodia with her family to escape the Khmer Rouge when she was five, now creates Cambodian comfort food dishes like oxtail and beef back rib soup. Food lover’s weekend: Seattle Southside | Provided by Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The tribunal is administered jointly by the United Nations and the Cambodian government and has been subject to pressure by Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge officer, to limit prosecutions. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Dissent was usually met with death in the Khmer Rouge’s notorious “killing fields” or elsewhere, while starvation, overwork and medical neglect took many more lives. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The streets of Phnom Penh, a city once emptied of cars by the Khmer Rouge, later the domain of United Nations peacekeeping vehicles, are now choked with the traffic jams common in many Asian megacities. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z I was stunned to learn that the Khmer Rouge discussed nearly the same story, about a crocodile. Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on "high alert" 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Three years later, Vietnam invaded Cambodia — another Communist country — and overthrew the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Like others, Mr. Youk Chhang contrasted the painstaking legal process and personal accommodations of the defendants with the harsh conditions and torture suffered by those imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z During his trial, Khieu Samphan claimed the allegations against him were “Vietnamese propaganda” and said that while he had been aware of accusations of suffering under the Khmer Rouge, “the term murderer I categorically reject.” Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Many white-collar jobs are secured through connections and under-the-table payments, the kind of inequalities that led many Cambodians to initially welcome the Khmer Rouge. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In 1998, Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 72, evading prosecution for the deaths of two million Cambodians. Today in History 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z “To imagine the smiling faces of victims of the Khmer Rouge, your judgment then must be horrible,” Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, said Monday. Altered photos of Cambodian torture victims stir controversy 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “He’s got the strongest case for saying he didn’t actually do anything,” said David Chandler, a prominent historian of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Only when an invasion by Vietnam finally drove the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979 did the magnitude of the killings become truly known. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z There, over the past 16 years, what are known as the Khmer Rouge trials have unfolded, through a U.N.-sponsored process that was supposed to bring a measure of justice and catharsis to Cambodia. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Many of the Khmer Rouge's victims died from starvation, disease and overwork. Cambodia criticises edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z “A lesson we learn from this is that we must accept the fact that the Khmer Rouge is NOT about the past,” Youk Chhang told The Associated Press in an email. Altered photos of Cambodian torture victims stir controversy 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “Survivors of the Khmer Rouge will remember the court by the convictions it achieved,” said Mr. Youk Chhang, who is himself a survivor. Khmer Rouge Leader Appears in Court to Appeal Genocide Conviction 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He was found not guilty of genocide against the Cham, a Muslim ethnic minority whose members had put up a small but futile resistance against the Khmer Rouge, for lack of evidence. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Dredging the past could be risky for the ruling party, which is stocked with Khmer Rouge defectors and their disciples. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “She was a kindhearted, very gentle person,” recalled Tan, who said he was the only member of his family to survive the Khmer Rouge. This doctor escaped Cambodia’s killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “How can it be about the past, when we have at least five million survivors of the Khmer Rouge are still alive today?” Altered photos of Cambodian torture victims stir controversy 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Decades removed from the Khmer Rouge regime, her Cambodian collaborators brought a sense of urgency to the work. Preserving Brutal Histories, One Garment at a Time 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z His crimes against humanity conviction covered activities at work camps and cooperatives established by the Khmer Rouge. Ex-Khmer Rouge official appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Unlike the generations that survived the Khmer Rouge years, they have not been conditioned to keep quiet to stay alive. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. This doctor escaped Cambodia’s killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. Today in History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z She still thinks about a “Creamsicle-colored” child’s dress found among the Khmer Rouge uniforms. Preserving Brutal Histories, One Garment at a Time 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Known as Duc, he was the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z When she was in high school, Ma Syloun visited the court with her mother, Mak Leuk, whose younger sister was taken in for questioning by the Khmer Rouge and never seen again. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z During the Khmer Rouge’s brutal reign and the Cambodian civil war before it, Lim and her nine siblings attended school sporadically. This doctor escaped Cambodia’s killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z They married and started a family, and life was good until civil war broke out in 1970, between the government and the communist Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z She has salvaged thousands of garments from a notorious Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia, and a shipping container’s worth of bloodstained clothing collected from victims of the Rwandan genocide. Preserving Brutal Histories, One Garment at a Time 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z In the late 1970s, he visited Cambodia and dined with Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, who orchestrated the mass murder of millions of his countrymen. Jan Myrdal, radical and rebellious Swedish writer, dies at 93 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z He started off in the Khmer Rouge before aligning himself with the forces that swept aside the regime. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The ravages of war forced the family first from its small town to the capital, Phnom Penh, and then into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. This doctor escaped Cambodia’s killing fields, but she couldn't survive COVID-19 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z She later discovered that they were among the first to be executed by the Khmer Rouge. The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z In the meantime, those left behind in Cambodia, including Ngoy family members, endured the “Killing Fields” of the Khmer Rouge, with more than a million people slaughtered and others forced into labor camps. Review: A Shakespearean SoCal tragedy, 'The Donut King' charts the rise and fall of Ted Ngoy 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z According to Duch’s indictment, more than 1,000 other inmates died when all of their blood was drawn for use in transfusions for wounded Khmer Rouge soldiers. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z At Ma Simet’s funeral in late January, in a shaded pagoda complex rebuilt after the Khmer Rouge destroyed it, his mother, Mak Leuk, received the mourners. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Most of them were tortured, forced to confess to alleged crimes against the Khmer Rouge and then put to death at the so-called killing fields just outside the capital Phnom Penh. Khmer Rouge prison commander Comrade Duch dies 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Under the Khmer Rouge leadership of Pol Pot people were forced to work on communal farms, and those with money or education were tortured and killed. The Donut King who went full circle - from rags to riches, twice 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Like many key members of the Khmer Rouge, Duch was an academic before he became a revolutionary. Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Duch and other Khmer Rouge leaders fled the capital as Vietnamese troops closed in, heading west to the border with Thailand. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Over the years, about 20,000 Cambodians have been killed by unexploded ordnance scattered across the country by warring forces: the Khmer Rouge, the Americans, the Vietnamese and other Cambodian factions. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? They escaped the worst of COVID-19. Now Cambodians face a debt crisis 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Some of Ms. Duckworth’s earliest memories involve the Khmer Rouge seizing control of Cambodia, where her father was working for the United Nations. Tammy Duckworth Is Nothing and Everything Like Joe Biden 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 and immediately attempted a radical transformation of Cambodia into a peasant society, emptying cities and forcing the population to work on the land. Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In 2009, he became the first Khmer Rouge leader to go on trial before the U.N.-backed special tribunal, officially known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The family was in Cambodia, living in Phnom Penh during a period of violence shortly before the Khmer Rouge took power in the mid-1970s. The war hero who could be Biden's running mate 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? They escaped the worst of COVID-19. Now Cambodians face a debt crisis 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z For about five years, beginning in the mid-1990s, the Taliban went around terrorizing women and lopping off limbs and basically behaving like the Khmer Rouge. Opinion | Why is the party with a strong chance of winning playing a reckless game with U.S. history? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Other UN-assisted special courts were established for mass crimes committed in Sierra Leone, in East Timor, as well as in Cambodia to bring some belated justice to the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge. Srebrenica 25 years on: how the world lost its appetite to fight war crimes 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z While studying for a teaching certificate in Phnom Penh, he came under the sway of the school’s director, Son Sen, who would later become Khmer Rouge defense minister. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia left many of their victims in mass graves. ‘We’re Going to See What Else the Word Funeral Can Mean’ 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge fell in January 1979, overthrown by the Vietnamese army with assistance from defectors like Hun Sen. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z According to court documents, Chea fled Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime with his parents and five siblings when he was 10. Cambodian refugee deported 2 years ago set to return to US 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Bun Chea, whose husband was also killed by the Khmer Rouge, leaving her a widow with 12 children, said she too believed her younger sister was dead. Sisters, 98 and 101, reunited after 47 years 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z He taught math at a provincial high school before leaving to join the Khmer Rouge in late 1967 and adopting “Duch” as his revolutionary name. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The population boomed after the 1970s “killing fields,” a campaign of terror and genocide by the Khmer Rouge that left nearly 2 million Cambodians dead and forced thousands to seek refuge in the United States. So many languages, so few books: Libraries struggle to reflect places they serve 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Charges against one former Khmer Rouge official were dismissed. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Coles, 57, who is the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire, said: "It's like the Khmer Rouge suddenly popping up in a stream of condolence." Richard Coles 'told his partner is in hell' 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z He promptly rejoined the Khmer Rouge insurgents at a jungle hideout, where he was tasked with setting up a prison to detain suspected spies. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He was initially credited with economic growth and peace after the devastation caused by the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for some of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. Cambodian politician turned away at Paris check-in 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But Ao An’s lawyers said the case couldn’t proceed since a majority of judges ruled that he was not a senior leader, nor among those most responsible for Khmer Rouge crimes. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He wrote about the brutality of Khmer Rouge communes, but says that after he was handed an AK47 things improved. 'Whistles, warnings, kaboom!': a day with a landmine clearance team | Jamie Fullerton 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In his testimony, Qiu invoked not just parallels to the Chinese Exclusion Act but the genocide of the Khmer Rouge and Nazi Germany as examples of similarly disastrous government “solutions.” Affirmative action debate in Washington takes an Orwellian turn 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The leadership was so impressed with his zeal that he was eventually appointed head of the dreaded Khmer Rouge internal security apparatus known as the Santebal. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Seam entered the U.S. legally as a 4-year-old refugee fleeing Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge. California governor pardons 3 convicted immigrants to help block deportations 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The head of the Khmer Rouge, French-educated Pol Pot, never faced a formal trial. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Fun with guns didn’t convert to true loyalty to the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal vision, and in the early 1980s Ra was convinced to join Vietnam forces. 'Whistles, warnings, kaboom!': a day with a landmine clearance team | Jamie Fullerton 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z When the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh in 1975, the occupants of the White Building — a government housing complex adopted by artists — fled the city along with most other residents of the capital. Young filmmakers train a fresh lens on turbulent Cambodia 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z On appeal, the court rejected his plea for release, unswayed by his conversion to evangelical Christianity and his arguments that he had been merely a “cog” in the Khmer Rouge killing machine. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He said that he was born in Cambodia and that his grandparents died during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in the 1970s. Developer wanted D.C. condo project to feel like home 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Many current leaders in the Cambodian government were members of the Khmer Rouge, including Hun Sen and Heng Samrin, president of the lower house of parliament. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Nuon Chea was convicted in two separate trials of crimes against humanity, genocide and other offenses when the Khmer Rouge held power in the late 1970s. Khmer Rouge tribunal: Death stops defendant’s appeal 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Driven from power by the 1979 Vietnamese invasion, the Khmer Rouge leadership retreated to western Cambodia and resumed guerrilla warfare. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z His victims included four Americans, detained and tortured at Tuol Sleng into making bogus confessions of espionage before being slaughtered ahead of a Vietnamese invasion that swept the Khmer Rouge from power in January 1979. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He argued that the vast majority of deaths were committed by Vietnamese-backed factions within the Khmer Rouge ranks. Cambodia's unrepentant perpetrator of genocide 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The photograph was taken after murders he was accused of committing when the Khmer Rouge swept through this nation decades ago in a reign of fevered killing and mass graves. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z After seizing control of Cambodia in 1975, the Maoist Khmer Rouge attempted to force the country back to the Middle Ages. Cambodian former Khmer Rouge deputy leader dies 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z By April 1975, the U.S.-backed government’s forces were spent, and the Khmer Rouge swept into the capital. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Also killed were large numbers of Khmer Rouge officials, soldiers and Tuol Sleng prison guards and interrogators who became targets of purges as the revolution turned inward in a spasm of paranoia and bloodletting. Kaing Khek Iev, Khmer Rouge security chief known as ‘Brother Duch,’ dies at 77 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z They are the only senior Khmer Rouge leaders to be prosecuted for the regime's atrocities. Cambodia's unrepentant perpetrator of genocide 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The tribunal was hailed as a step forward for domestic and international justice when it was established in 2003, after lengthy negotiations between Cambodia and the U.N., to try Khmer Rouge leaders. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Researchers believe Nuon Chea was responsible for the extremist policies of the Khmer Rouge and was directly involved in its purges and executions. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z He was 88, the oldest and most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader and one of two defendants in the case. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Researchers believe Nuon Chea was responsible for the murderous policies of the Khmer Rouge and was directly involved in its purges and executions. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z "We buried the images to hide our family's identify of a privileged life before the Khmer Rouge," says Vira Rama. Treasured family photos buried to hide the past 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Some aging former Khmer Rouge cadres believe Ao An should be spared, no matter how heinous the crimes under his watch. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z At the long-awaited Khmer Rouge trials, he told a court that he and his comrades were not “bad people,” denying responsibility for any deaths. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z According to a notorious former Khmer Rouge security chief and prison warden, Mr. Nuon Chea personally oversaw massive purges of suspected “traitors” within Khmer Rouge ranks. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Intense U.S. aerial bombardment and weak Cambodian government troops failed to stop communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas advancing on Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Rail line links Thailand, Cambodia first time since Vietnam War 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z "The Khmer Rouge would conduct random searches, they looked for evidence that tied people to the city." Treasured family photos buried to hide the past 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Survivors of Khmer Rouge massacres lamented the possibility that Ao An could escape trial. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z For decades after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea lived quietly with his family in a wooden house in Pailin, a former guerrilla stronghold near the border with Thailand. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Unlike other former Khmer Rouge leaders who were called to account for the regime’s crimes, Mr. Nuon Chea was largely unrepentant. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z British and other aid to an anti-Vietnamese Cambodian resistance, which included elements of the Khmer Rouge and other guerrillas. Rail line links Thailand, Cambodia first time since Vietnam War 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The regime fell in January 1979 and the Khmer Rouge melted back into society. Treasured family photos buried to hide the past 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The graves were dug up after the Khmer Rouge fell, the bones placed in a long, open white tomb that serves as a memorial. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He was arrested in 2007 to face trial along with other surviving but ailing top Khmer Rouge leaders, and charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z In April 1978, two Americans, James William Clark and Lance McNamara, were captured when their boat was fired upon and stopped by Khmer Rouge forces. Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge’s infamous ‘Brother Number Two,’ dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Dean faced more turbulence in Cambodia, where he arrived in Phnom Penh as U.S. ambassador in 1974, with President Lon Nol’s forces losing ground against the Khmer Rouge, a group of brutal communist insurgents. John Gunther Dean, ambassador haunted by U.S. departure from Cambodia, dies at 93 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Dean oversaw the evacuation of the embassy in Phnom Penh as the capital fell to the Khmer Rouge and tried to find safe passage for the Cambodians who had battled against the communist insurgents. John Gunther Dean, US diplomat haunted by Cambodia, dies 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z After nearly two decades, $300 million spent and only three convictions, a special United Nations-backed court established to try leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia appears to have ground to a halt. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “I don’t want the next generation to misunderstand history. I don’t want them to believe the Khmer Rouge are bad people, are criminals,” Nuon Chea testified in 2011 at the age of 85. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z A mother searches for her young son in 1970s Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in this animated drama. L.A. movie openings, June 9-16: ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ a Bob Dylan rock doc and more 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Considered the architect of the offensive that ended nearly four years of Pol Pot’s murderous rule, Gen. Anh went on to command Vietnamese occupation forces in Cambodia as they battled a persistent Khmer Rouge insurgency. Le Duc Anh, Vietnamese general who led the campaign to oust Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, dies at 98 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z As in Cambodia after the atrocities by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, future generations inherited a national nightmare, memorialized in the exhibited skulls of victims stacked in rows. 25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The three remaining cases are stuck in limbo due to opposition from Cambodian court officials and the country’s authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander. Will the last of the Khmer Rouge ever face justice in Cambodian mass killings? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Researchers say he was the chief ideologue responsible for devising the Khmer Rouge’s most brutal policies, notably at Tuol Sleng — or S-21 — prison, which is now a genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The CCP sponsored Pol Pot’s insurgency against the Cambodian state and were the Khmer Rouge’s main backers after they took power in 1975. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The essentials: During practices, the girls on the high school soccer team the Wolves engage in desultory, often overlapping chatter on topics ranging from the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge to their menstrual cycles. ‘Friends With Guns,’ cruel girls in ‘The Wolves’ and other picks from L.A’s small stages 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The Iowa native is widely recognized as the first person to write about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, a violent extremist regime in Cambodia. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Vietnam was at war almost continuously for some 45 years, from the end of World War Two through to the early 1990s, battling France, the United States, China and Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Vietnam relishes role as peace maker as it seeks to balance ties 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z After being ousted from power in 1979, the Khmer Rouge waged guerrilla warfare for another two decades before disintegrating. Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The country’s current leader Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander with an appalling record of political violence, is one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z “Virtually all are the children of Khmer Rouge refugees,” Mr. Herod said of those being deported from the United States. Dozens More Cambodian Immigrants to Be Deported From U.S., Officials Say 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Brown drew an angry response from President Donald Trump when he pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two who fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia with their families four decades ago. Jerry Brown pardons Roderick Wright, California state senator convicted of felony voter fraud 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It didn’t help that the U.N. agreement’s vague wording of who could be targeted for prosecution - senior Khmer Rouge leaders and those most responsible for the atrocities - proved to be more restrictive than open-ended. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z It didn’t help that the U.N. agreement’s vague wording of who could be targeted for prosecution — senior Khmer Rouge leaders and those most responsible for the atrocities — proved to be more restrictive than open-ended. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z While the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, western Europe and North America ran their own Maoist fevers. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z "One can always surmise about more being done," said Scheffer, who also served as the U.N.'s special expert on assistance to the Khmer Rouge trials. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z After the Khmer Rouge were ousted by a Vietnamese invasion, they retreated to the jungles, where they became once again an insurgent army in a civil war. ‘We Only Killed the Bad People’: 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders, Forever Linked 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “This trial has frequently been a disgrace and a farce,” said Sophal Ear, a professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, whose family fled the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “One can always surmise about more being done,” said Scheffer, who also served as the U.N.’s special expert on assistance to the Khmer Rouge trials. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z After 12 years in operation, the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia on Friday delivered what will likely be its final verdict. 'I live next to my Khmer Rouge torturer' 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z "The court has made a huge contribution to helping the world and Cambodians better understand what occurred during the Khmer Rouge regime," said Ryan. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z They retreated to their refuge in the remote border town of Pailin, where most residents were also former Khmer Rouge, until their arrest in 2007. ‘We Only Killed the Bad People’: 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders, Forever Linked 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Friday’s genocide conviction comes more than 40 years after the Khmer Rouge imposed its reign of terror on Cambodia. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “The court has made a huge contribution to helping the world and Cambodians better understand what occurred during the Khmer Rouge regime,” said Ryan. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z In 1974, when Sen was just 14, Khmer Rouge guerrillas took control of his hometown in Takeo province, to the south of the capital Phnom Penh. 'I live next to my Khmer Rouge torturer' 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It didn't help that the U.N. agreement's vague wording of who could be targeted for prosecution — senior Khmer Rouge leaders and those most responsible for the atrocities — proved to be more restrictive than open-ended. Experts weigh the record of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z "Today, I am very happy that the both Khmer Rouge leaders were sentenced to life in prison. The verdict was fair enough for me and other Cambodian victims," he said. Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “It may be finished,” said Iam Yen, 52, who gave testimony to the tribunal of her years imprisoned in a child camp under the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The guilty verdict, in a UN-backed tribunal, is the first official acknowledgement that what the Khmer Rouge - under which up to two million people died - did was genocide, as defined in international law. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge commander, has been outspoken in his opposition to further trials of mid-ranking cadre, claiming it could result in a return to civil war. 'I live next to my Khmer Rouge torturer' 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They were the first Khmer Rouge officials found guilty of genocide and were sentenced to life in prison. Former Khmer Rouge officials found guilty of genocide 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z One of the spectators at Friday's hearing was 65-year-old Sum Rithy, who said he had been jailed for nearly two years under the Khmer Rouge, who accused him of being a spy for the CIA. Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Both the word and the language it was written in could have doomed him when his grandfather was head of state of Kampuchea, as Cambodia was known during the Khmer Rouge era. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Just talking about the Khmer Rouge brought back horrible memories of life under their rule in 1975-79, he said. Tribunal to decide genocide, other verdicts over Khmer Rouge 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z However, Sen did say that testifying at the court had released much of the anxiety he harboured regarding former Khmer Rouge still living near his home. 'I live next to my Khmer Rouge torturer' 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge sought to achieve an agrarian utopia by emptying the cities to establish vast rural communes. Cambodian tribunal session set for verdicts on Khmer Rouge 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The verdict read aloud in the courtroom by Judge Nil Nonn established that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide against the Vietnamese and Cham minorities. Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He was soon drafted into the Khmer Rouge and rose from foot soldier to district chief. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal is set to deliver its verdict on whether the last two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are guilty of genocide. Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The hybrid court, which uses a mix of Cambodian and international law, was created with the backing of the UN in 2006 to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders. Khmer Rouge leaders face 'Nuremberg judgment' on genocide charges 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z He was able to trade on his reputation as an honest left-wing academic and lawmaker in 1960s Cambodia before repression drove him underground and into the jungle with the then-nascent Khmer Rouge movement. Verdicts on Khmer Rouge leaders may be tribunal's last gasp 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Scholars had debated whether suppression of the Chams, a Muslim ethnic minority whose members had put up a small but futile resistance against the Khmer Rouge, amounted to genocide. Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Most of the population was born long after the Khmer Rouge was removed from power by the invading Vietnamese in 1979. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But a guilty verdict on Friday would be the first official acknowledgement that what the Khmer Rouge regime did was in fact genocide as defined under international law. Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Prime Minister Hun Sen – himself a former Khmer Rouge official – has repeatedly warned he would not allow more investigations to proceed, citing vague threats to stability. Khmer Rouge leaders face 'Nuremberg judgment' on genocide charges 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Fried tarantula became popular with Cambodians when food became scarce under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Table for None: Why Do Certain Foods Turn You Off? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Rithy said three of his siblings were killed by the Khmer Rouge, also accused of being CIA spies, while his father died of starvation. Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Yun Bin, 63, said he was taken to one of the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields, hacked with an ax and dumped in a well with others. Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z During the four violent years they were in power, the Khmer Rouge also killed all those perceived to be enemies - intellectuals, minorities, former government officials - and their families. Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The court has launched investigations into four more Khmer Rouge figures, though one was dismissed in February 2017, highlighting the difficulties of bringing lower-level members of the brutal regime to justice. Khmer Rouge leaders face 'Nuremberg judgment' on genocide charges 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The 76-year-old was the first among the Khmer Rouge leaders to be convicted and sentenced to life in prison by a U.N.-backed tribunal in 2012. Ex-Khmer Rouge jailer hospitalized in serious condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z |
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