PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the ...

Former Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav, known as “Duch”, died in prison on Wednesday at age 77. The Trial Chamber of The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) convicted Kaing in ...

Sieu Sean Do was 12 when Khmer Rouge soldiers ordered his ... accountability and explanations for the crimes. NEWS AT NIGHT: Sign up for USA TODAY's free Evening Briefing newsletter In ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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. No one knows whether ...

Lyna Lam, founder of nonprofit organization Wat Khmer Kampuchea Krom, wants to build a temple in San Jose that will serve as a central pillar for the local Khmer Krom community. How a 10-year-old ...