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 ...

Another Khmer Rouge leader, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted of crimes against humanity. He ran the notorious S21 security prison and processed about 24,000 people for extermination in ...

The Khmer Rouge in 1975 attempted to create a classless agrarian society, forcing city residents into the country to work in forced labor. Mismanagement led to starvation and disease.

The Khmer Rouge fully claimed power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975, after the regime captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. Under the new regime, leader Pol Pot attempted to purge Cambodia ...

Khmer Rouge torture chief Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted of crimes against humanity in 2010 for his role at the S21 death camp where more than 14,000 people were imprisoned and ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. About 10 kilometres (six miles ...

Garbed in black, the Khmer Rouge’s standard attire, the performers acted as executioners, swinging bamboo sticks at the heads of victims whose arms were bound behind their backs.

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and all other sizable population centers.

April 17 was the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal takeover of Cambodia. During five dark and desperate years, 2 ...

Kerry Hamill was 26 when the Khmer Rouge captured him. Courtesy of Rob Hamill Hearing about my brother's demise — reading about it in the paper — was a real shock.