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Khmer Rouge

World news about “Khmer Rouge” published by euronews.

  • Cambodians mark Anger Day

    At the Choeun Ek memorial site, Cambodians marked Anger Day on May 20 – with re-enactments of Khmer Rouge torture and executions. Choeun Ek, from 17… 20/05/2013

  • Cambodians mark ‘Day of Anger’ – nocomment

    Cambodians marked Anger Day on Monday, an annual commemoration of the estimated 1.7 million victims of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime. Survivors and… 20/05/2013

  • Cambodian woman devotes life to healing war scars

    Euronews went to Battambang province to meet Davy Tith.   This former teacher and translator has devoted most of her life to the victims of Pol Pot’s… 10/10/2012

  • Former Khmer Rouge soldier faces up to past

    Welcome to Kampong Thom, cradle of Pol Pot, the infamous Khmer Rouge leader.   We are here to meet Chin Meth, on her journey through history.   Enrolled by… 03/10/2012

  • Fighting the war’s inheritance in Cambodia

    This month, Women and War is in Cambodia to meet Meth, Davy, and Somaly. In a country where the proverb is: women are like cotton, they still fight with an… 01/10/2012

  • Khmer Rouge ‘core’ goes on trial

    Now frail and elderly pensioners, they nonetheless stand accused of being privy to the decisions taken by the regime of the Khmer Rouge. They are… 27/06/2011

  • Khmer Rouge First Lady set free

    The most senior female figure of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime has been set free by the country’s war crimes tribunal. 80-year-old Ieng Thirith, the… 16/09/2012

  • UN court hands life term to Khmer Rouge jailer

    A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia on Friday rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, ruling that he must spend the rest of his life in… 03/02/2012

  • Khmer Rouge trial opens in Cambodia

    The three most senior surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge have gone on trial at a UN-backed tribunal. Nearly two million people died under Pol Pot’s… 21/11/2011

  • Khmer Rouge leaders leave court citing ill health

    Senior surviving members of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime have shown little sign of co-operating at their trial which has started in Phnom Penh. The four… 27/06/2011

  • Cambodians’ angst bound in warcrimes trial

    The war crimes trial in Phnom Penh comes three decades after one of history’s bloodiest upheavals. Human rights activists say they hope for some sort of… 27/06/2011

  • Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge four on trial

    The UN-backed trial of the top surviving members of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime has finally got under way in Phnom Penh. The four defendants include the now… 27/06/2011

  • Khmer Rouge chiefs on trial over ‘Killing Fields’

    The long-awaited UN-backed trial of the four most senior surviving members of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime has got underway in Phnom Penh. The defendants… 27/06/2011

  • Time is of the essence in Khmer Rouge genocide trial

    The UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia has formally indicted the four surviving leaders of the infamous Khmer Rouge regime. Brother Number Two, Nuon… 16/09/2010

  • Prayers at Khmer Rouge jail before court verdict

    A special Buddhist ceremony has been held at a notorious former Khmer Rouge prison in Phnom Penh, on the eve of a court verdict in the trial of the jail’s… 25/07/2010

  • The Khmer Rouge: uniquely wicked, rarely punished

    From 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge imposed a reign of terror in Cambodia, murdering intellectuals, re-educating urban populations through forced labour, and… 23/11/2009

  • Duch trial approaches end

    The closing arguments have begun in the trial of the former prison chief of Cambodia’s notorious S-21 prison during the rule of Pol Pot. Better known as… 23/11/2009


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