Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal is all but over. The final appeal in the genocide case against the regime’s former head of state Khieu Samphan has been dismissed and legislation passed to wind up the ...

Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him. By Graham Bowley The artist Fonki ...

Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity by a Cambodian court and sentenced to life in prison. Nuon Chea, who was deputy to the infamous Pol Pot, and Khieu ...

(Reuters) - Prosecutors for Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal began laying out their case on Monday in the first trial of a senior Pol Pot cadre since the fall of the regime blamed for 1.7 million ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Thirty years after the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people, the first trial of his top cadres begins on Feb. 17. A handful of ageing ...

When Sophorn Fay, then 11, trekked through minefields to Thailand to escape the ruthless Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1978, she didn't know it would be 26 years before she saw her native country again.

(THE CONVERSATION) On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed ...