April 17 marks the 51st anniversary of the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge regime, a date widely regarded as one of the darkest turning points in Cambodia’s modern history. More than four decades ...
From left: Khana Desen, Victoria Ung, Channa Sath, Rancia Phin and Sophorl Ngin as the white swans in the third act of "A Khmer Swan Lake." (Courtesy James Higgins) On a blustery spring evening, ...
Cambodia has secured the return of 74 Khmer cultural objects formerly held by the family of notorious British art dealer Douglas “Dynamite Doug” Latchford, marking one of the country’s largest single ...
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 locations were inscribed to the ...
The Cambodian government says that the three sites “bear irrefutable evidence of events amounting to one of the most serious abuses of human rights in the 20th century.” Three former torture and ...
Three notorious locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year Zero five decades ago have been added to UNESCO’s World ...
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mawn - the Khmer word for “chicken” - is more ...
Hundreds of Cambodians marked the Day of Remembrance by attending a ceremony honouring victims of the Khmer Rouge at one of the "killing fields". Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the ...
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On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed was one of the worst ...
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 ...
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