Khmer Rouge’s ‘first lady,’ charged with genocide, dies at 83
Ieng Thirith, the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, has died in Cambodia after a long illness, according to a United Nations-backed tribunal that is trying former regime leaders in Phnom Penh.
China stirs up ghosts of Khmer Rouge airport project
The military airport outside this river town in central Cambodia sprawls out in eerie silence, its vast concrete runway untroubled by any sign of aircraft.
Forty years after ‘Year Zero’: Cambodia’s young wrestle with a dark past
Four decades ago, on April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh and seized power.
How a Brutal Khmer Rouge Leader Died ‘Not Guilty’
A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary’s human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals.
Death of a killer in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime’s 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87.
Cambodia: Cashing in on the Khmer Rouge
According to a government tourism plan, 14 Khmer Rouge sites are set for a makeover.
A mixed reaction to judgment day
KAMPONG THOM PROVINCE–IN the cafes of Stoung district, yesterday’s verdict in the case of Kaing Guek Eev, alias Duch, proved a hard sell. At one cavernous establishment on National Road 6, a broadcast of the proceedings vied for attention with a cheaply made Chinese action film.
Cambodia: whose tribunal is it anyway?
The West is turning the trial of surviving members of the Khmer Rouge – its former allies – into a piece of self-promoting political theatre
Trying the Khmer Rouge
In between lounging in the backyard and assaulting Robert Fisk’s brick-like The Great War For Civilisation, I’ve been immersing myself in readings about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal — scheduled, after nearly two decades of diplomatic evasion and acrimonious negotiations, to begin operation sometime in 2008. But after again reading about the tribunal’s tortuous gestation, I’m...
