Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...

Thailand says ordnance replanted by Cambodia has injured or maimed more than a dozen of its soldiers. Cambodia rejects the accusation. By Sui-Lee Wee Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City. (photo credit: REUTERS) A former Khmer Rouge child soldier ...

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge ravaged Cambodia, killing between one and two million people before its murderous regime was ousted by a Vietnamese invasion. While Cambodia is far from Iraq and ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List. The three ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of ...

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia’s remote reaches, each with a chronicle of the horror-soaked years in which Pol Pot and his Communist disciples ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has reiterated it intends to end the work of the U.N.-backed tribunal that last week convicted the last two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge of genocide, ...

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