Topic - Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. The regime led by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was known as the Democratic Kampuchea. - Source: Wikipedia

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Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts perform the Victory Day dancing during their reign of terror in the 1970s in an event hosted by the ruling Cambodian People's Party to mark the annual of Remembrance Day at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field," on the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia’s ‘Day of Remembrance’ marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge genocide

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

The front gate of Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Pnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia passes bill toughening penalties for denial of Khmer Rouge genocide

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

A tourist views portraits of victims executed by the Khmer Rouge regime at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Feb. 5, 2018. Cambodians on Monday, April 12, 2021, continued to condemn an Irish photo restorer for altering photographs of victims of their country’s 1970s genocide to show them smiling, saying his decision and that of an international media group to publish them showed horrible judgement.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Altered photos of Cambodian torture victims stir controversy

By Bt SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2009, file photo, former Khmer Rouge prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also know as Duch looks on during the first full day of a U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 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, died at a hospital in Cambodia early Wednesday morning, Sept. 2, 2020. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Mak Remissa/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77

By Sopheng Cheang and Jerry Harmer - Associated Press

Khmer Rouge tribunal: Death stops defendant’s appeal

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Relatives carry a portrait of former Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, Nuon Chea, during his funeral procession in Pailin in northwestern Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Nuon Chea, known as Brother No. 2 and the right-hand man of Pol Pot, the leader of the brutal Communist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, died Sunday at age 93. (AP Photo/Chorn Chanren)

Khmer Rouge ideologue cremated, appeal may be stopped

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March, 20, 2008 file photo, former Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, Nuon Chea, foreground, sits in the court hall before the final statements at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal announced. He was 93. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

EDITORIAL: Little mourning for Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s lieutenant who terrorized Cambodia

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2018 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in a court room before a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal announced. He was 93. (Mark Peters/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP, File)

Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies at 93

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

The bridge on the River Kwai is part of Thailand's most famous rail line, but its new link to Cambodia carries symbolic significance. (Associated Press/File)

Rail line links Thailand, Cambodia first time since Vietnam War

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures to the Win-Win Memorial during its opening ceremony in Prek Ta Sek village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Cambodia's long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen has inaugurated a monument marking the 1998 end of the threat from the communist Khmer Rouge movement, which ruinously ruled the country in the late 1970s and then carried on a guerrilla war. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian PM dedicates monument to his defeat of Khmer Rouge

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, sits in a court room before a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The international tribunal to judge the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians opened its session Friday to deliver its verdicts on charges of genocide and other crimes. (Mark Peters/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP)

Cambodia says Khmer Rouge tribunal that convicted 3 is done

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, foreground, former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at thea dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia on Friday convicted the two most senior surviving leaders of the country's former Khmer Rouge regime of genocide and other crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life in prison. (Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP)

Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Cambodian students enter into the courtroom before the hearings against two former Khmer Rouge senior leaders, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The U.N.-backed tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians will issue verdicts Friday in the latest — and perhaps last — of such trials. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Tribunal to decide genocide, other verdicts over Khmer Rouge

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26, 2010, file photo, a photographer takes pictures from a television screen of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst &quot;enemies&quot; of the state, at the press center of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Duch has been hospitalized with serious respiratory problems. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Ex-Khmer Rouge jailer hospitalized in serious condition

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FILE - In this Sunday, July 29, 2018, file photo, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen holds his ballot at a polling station in Takhmua, Kandal province, southeast of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Determined to extend his 33 years as Cambodia's strongman ruler, Prime Minister Hun Sen was not about to let an election derail what he believes is his destiny. The 65-year-old Hun Sen had declared he intends to stay in office for 10 more years, and Sunday's general election victory by his Cambodian People's Party should get him halfway to that goal. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Hun Sen plays hardball to keep his grip on Cambodia

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press