Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies ...

His hearing comes one day after former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, 76, was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Former Khmer Rouge Head of State Khieu Samphan seen in court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 30, was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes during the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution, in which ...

'Funan' director Denis Do discusses his animated pic, which won the Annecy International Animated Film Festival's prize for Best Feature.

The Khmer Rouge was founded in the 1950s by Cambodian communists, including several leading ones educated in France, which had been the country's colonial master until independence in 1953.

Vann Nath had been in the prison nearly a year when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in late December 1978 and the Khmer Rouge was soon driven from power.