...Dith Pran pleaded to board the truck and persuaded the driver that the reporters were French -- and were there to cover the Khmer Rouge victory with sympathy. Back in Phnom Pehn, Schanberg was able to obtain safe passage to Thailand through the French embassy,...
...to the south while he guarded several ancient temples and their surrounding land. In 1996, he laid down his arms as Khmer Rouge Brother Number Two, Ieng Sary, led the first wave of defections to the government. Ieng Sary today is in detention facing war...
...peace are paid in different ways. For the people of Cambodia, scarred by years of fighting and the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge, the slow and stuttering transition towards security has provided economic benefits as well as an opportunity to see some...
...rape and domestic violence, with many of the perpetrators enjoying impunity in the same manner as that experienced by the Khmer Rouge. "Increasing cases of rape can be partially attributed to the spread of drug use among youth gangs and to the inability of...
...Human bones still litter the site. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by...
...along the Thai border. Then he worked in a medical corps. In 1995 his leg was blown off by a landmine laid by another Khmer Rouge unit. Maoist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979 Founded and led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998 Abolished religion, schools...
...his photo and movie archive from the 1978 trip to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, an independent group researching Khmer Rouge crimes. The center is publishing his book and organizing forums around Cambodia at which Bergstrom will speak. «It's a healing...
...a major base in the Khmer Rouges nearly 20-year civil war against the Phnom Penh government. Under the direction of former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary, the town was the centre of an enormously profitable border trade in gems and timber to Thailand,...
...Chean, a 40-year-old Cambodian villager, points to the grave of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold, about 305 kilometers (190 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Friday, April 11, 2008. Since his death a decade ago on April...
...out this form to email this article to a friend A SURVIVOR: Sophal Stagg tours the Khmer Rouge Tribunal compound in Cambodia. A survivor of the mass killings in that country in the 1970s, she now works to educate the public there about the nation's grim history. ...