Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

In 1975 the Khmer Rouge emptied the cities in an attempt to create an agrarian communist society killing off political opposition, Buddhist monks and the vast majority of the populations educated ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in ...

Cambodian legislators on Tuesday approved a draft law making it illegal to deny atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge ...

Eleven-year-old Yeat Saly lies in a hospital bed, a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forehead -- one of the many injuries ...

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades ...

Me Mang (Cambodia) (AFP) – 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 ...

Chau is one of 257,203 Cambodian/Khmer people in the U.S. — many of whom are refugees of the genocide. As a successful entrepreneur, he defied the odds faced by his community, ...

By Seth Mydans The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book “Cambodia: Year Zero” alerted the world to the atrocities being committed by the communist Khmer Rouge that ...

Phnom Penh (AFP) – Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday.