PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of ...

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Tourists who wander Cambodia’s Killing Fields don’t just encounter the ghosts of victims. Even today, scraps of clothing and bone fragments belonging to some of the 1.7 million people slaughtered by ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A long-delayed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal wrapped up its opening session earlier today with judges saying they still need to finalize a list of witnesses before announcing ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A U.N.-assisted tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime to life in prison for crimes ...

BANGKOK (AP) — After spending nine years and more than $300 million to prosecute leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million of their countrymen, a U.N.-assisted ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has convened to deliver its verdict on an appeal by the two most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime who were sentenced in 2014 to life ...

Cambodia took a concrete step this week toward finding justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge as the first of five former Khmer Rouge leaders was put on trial for crimes against humanity. As many ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Youk Chhang has spent 20 years documenting the horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" regime and his team has provided half a million documents to a U.N.-backed ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - After six months of testimony in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of the former Khmer Rouge, many Cambodians who suffered from the tyrannical regime have one ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- When Cambodian authorities arrested the Khmer Rouge's military chief and the director of the regime's main torture chamber three years ago, it was considered a major step ...

Survivors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime held a remembrance ceremony in an infamous "killing field" Sunday, a day before a U.N.-backed tribunal begins a trial for three of the accused architects of ...