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Hundreds of Thais protested in Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's stronghold in northern Thailand. The disgruntled locals staged a rally at the Three Kings Monument in Chiang Mai on June 26, ...
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, ... the Khmer Rouge presented themselves as a party for peace and succeeded in mobilizing support in the countryside.
The head of the Khmer Rouge, French-educated Pol Pot, never faced a formal trial. His former followers placed him under house arrest in Along Veng, the regime’s last stronghold, in 1997.
The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - the name the Communists used for Cambodia.
The Khmer Rouge trials have cost more than $300 million. Yet only three defendants have been found guilty. Two others died in the course of the trials, and two cases against lower-level commanders ...
Fifty years after fall of Phnom Penh, history weighs on Cambodian politics. The Khmer Rouge rise to power and the regime’s overthrow are foundational to the Cambodian People’s Party political ...
CHOEUNG EK, Cambodia — About 2,000 people attended Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance Tuesday to mark half a century since Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of ...
An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s ends its work Thursday.
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Lawyer Resigns Over Lack of Funding for Victim Participation July 09, 2022 9:30 AM ... International Civil Party Lead Co-Lawyer Megan Hirst resigned, ...
Cambodian students reenact as they perform as the Khmer Rouge dancing in an event by the ruling party to mark the annual of Remembrance Day at Choeung Ek, 20 May 2025 U.S. foreign tax bill sends ...
Along with holding significant military resources, the Khmer Rouge enjoyed a degree of international legitimacy: Into the early 1990s, the party of Pol Pot managed to hold Cambodia’s seat at the ...
Heng Sinith / AP Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, arrives in a vehicle for a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.