The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international ...

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 ...

Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people. On ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime launched his courtroom appeal Monday, seeking to convince a long-running international ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A U.N.-backed tribunal on Wednesday began a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of the two senior surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, under whose rule an ...

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 ...

Former Khmer Rouge prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, second from right, also known as ‘Duch,’ stands during a December 2007 hearing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A U.N.-backed tribunal was set to begin on ...

Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts perform the Victory Day dancing during their reign of terror in the 1970s in an event hosted by the ruling ...

In his Aug. 18 Ideas piece, “It’s time to retire the word ‘genocide,’ ” Stephen Kinzer asserts that the term “genocide” is often used inappropriately in situations where it does not apply. Accordingly ...

The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge "Killing Field" about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of ...