The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 under the leadership of "Brother Number One" Pol Pot - a charismatic intellectual who studied in France. Today Pol Pot's name is ...

The Khmer Rouge commander who oversaw the deaths of thousands of people during the Cambodian genocide, and who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, has died at age 77. Kaing ...

Two sisters who believed one another to have been murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia have been reunited after more than four decades apart. Granny Bun Sen, 98, embraced her sister, Granny Bun ...

Kaing Guek Eav, who admitted to commanding over the murders of more than 16,000 Cambodian inmates during the country’s Khmer Rouge regime of the late 1970s, died Wednesday at the age of 77 ...

“Perhaps it can bring some satisfaction to the living, and the fallen can now rest in peace,” Youk told AFP news agency. At Tuol Sleng, codenamed “S-21”, detainees were tortured by Khmer ...

“If Western collectors had not preserved this art,” he said in 2012, “what would be our understanding of Khmer culture today?” Douglas Arthur Joseph Latchford was born on Oct. 15 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Khmer Girls in Action is a nonprofit organization founded in Long Beach in 1997. "Our mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community," said ...

Comrade Duch, the senior Khmer Rouge figure who ran Cambodia's most notorious prison during the genocidal regime, has died, a spokesman for the tribunal that convicted him of war crimes says.

PhHNOM PENH, Sept 5 (AFP): The Khmer Rouge's interrogator-in-chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his alias Duch, died last Wednesday in Cambodia's capital at the age of 77. The former teacher ...

The Khmer Rouge took thousands of black-and-white photographs of victims It has taken decades for some to learn what happened to their family members The regime became paranoid and executed ...