In a verdict hailed as a step toward justice in Cambodia, a former Khmer Rouge general was convicted Monday of murder in the abduction and execution of three Western backpackers. Sam Bith, 69, was ...

The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...

For information media. Not an official record. More than 210,000 people in Chad have been affected by widespread flooding following heavy rains over the past few months and need food, shelter and ...

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 ...

The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million Cambodians in the 70s. Decades later, a tribunal was set up to help find justice. 15 years later, it's ending having found just three people guilty. Now to ...

At least 1.7 million people – nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population – were killed by execution, disease, starvation and overwork under the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule from 1975 to 1979. Three of the ...

The three top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have faced their first day in a U.N.-backed court, accused of crimes against humanity, genocide and terrible brutality that led to the deaths of about ...

For nearly three decades, Comrade Mong and his fellow Khmer Rouge rebels waged war on Cambodia, nurtured on fanatical notions of class struggle and destructive hatred for anyone or anything that stood ...