Cambodia: 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom PenhIn Cambodia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy leads prayers on the 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.

ALTHOUGH Cambodia without Pol Pot may be “a better place”, as one academic tersely concludes, it is not yet a peaceful one. When the smoke had cleared from the former tyrant's funeral pyre, burnt by a ...

When the Khmer Rouge seized power, they declared it the start of “Year Zero”—a chilling decree that symbolized the erasure of everything that had come before. It began with the sound of trucks, ...

RESIDENTS of Phnom Penh had grown accustomed to seeing Pol Pot's foreign minister living it up. But generous donations to Buddhist temples and the ruling party turned out to be not enough to shield ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Nuon Chea, the infamous ‘‘Brother No. 2’’ who presided over some of the worst atrocities of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in the late 1970s and ultimately was convicted of crimes against ...