Bo Uce still vividly remembers his experiences as a child soldier under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia — the freezing nights, the constant hunger, the violence. He doesn’t talk much about his past. But ...
He spent much of his life consumed by what the three men on the screen before him had done. He stared at the glossy, bloodshot eyes of the man in the middle, the one who had so casually demonstrated ...
During the genocidal reign of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in the 1970s, 16,000 Cambodians were herded into Tuol Sleng prison. Only seven made it out, and just two of that group were still thought to be ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted Friday by an international tribunal of ...
On the stage of a TV studio in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong is telling an engrossed audience a tragic, but familiar, story. On April 17, 1975 – 40 years ago today – life as Ly knew it was ...
She never said goodbye to her mother in 1975 when she was forcibly separated from her family by the Khmer Rouge. She never said goodbye to the five brothers and sisters who were also sent away and who ...
Cambodian social networks are spreading a clip recording a group of prisoners staging a scene and then pointing guns at the ...
In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to ...
You Bo: "The works of Cambodian writers are dead." Pal Vannarirak has twice won awards for her novels. Her drive to succeed came from a young age: when she was just 13 she dreamed of fame such as that ...