When he was 5, he was the son of actors and opera performers, constantly surrounded by music and family. By the time he was 12, his family had been slaughtered and starved to death, his country's ...
Cambodia is stepping up a 'last mile' push to wipe out malaria - Copyright AFP TANG CHHIN Sothy Cambodia is stepping up a 'last mile' push to wipe out malaria ...
Readying himself to meet and interview a fellow genocide survivor for the first time, Chau flashes back to the labor camps of Cambodia where he worked as a teenager, when the Khmer Rouge regime led by ...
By contrast, Dr. Sochanvimean “Vimean” Vannavuth, PhD, a Cambodian psychologist based in Santa Barbara, cited a 2015 study reporting that 87% of Khmer Rouge survivors continue having distressing ...
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 ...
CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia — With opening statements about to begin in the most important phase of the Khmer Rouge trials, survivors of the genocidal regime kneeled before a huge pyramid of skulls at a ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A relative says one of the last three survivors of Cambodia's most notorious Khmer Rouge-era prison has died at the age of 66. Vann Nath lapsed into a coma in late August ...
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine revisits the most extreme Communist regime to ever decimate a society—nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population was killed ...
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 ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The chief of a prison where some 16,000 men, women and children were tortured before being killed appeared Tuesday before Cambodia’s ...
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - One of the few survivors of the Khmer Rouge's notorious Tuol Sleng prison gave chilling testimony of "hell on earth" when he faced his former torturer at a U.N.-backed war ...
Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his wife and baby died -- and stands tantalisingly close to fulfilling his life's ...