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The Phnom Penh Post
April 25, 2018
Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out on Wednesday at people who insulted him for being "blind", while sticking up for disabled people of all kinds. The premier reportedly lost his eye while taking Phnom Penh as a soldier for the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge in 1975, and frequently mentions the injury whenÃâà...
Fraser Coast Chronicle
April 25, 2018
THE woman with her baby stares quietly into the camera, her passive gaze perhaps containing some knowledge of the unspeakable horrors that were about to befall her. Shortly after the photograph was taken on the woman's arrival at the infamous Khmer Rouge torture centre S-21 in Phnom Penh, herÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
April 25, 2018
Shortly after the photograph was taken on the woman's arrival at the infamous Khmer Rouge torture centre S-21 in Phnom Penh, her baby was taken away and killed. She herself was doomed, the wife of a Khmer Rouge officer who had fallen out of favour, and to become one of the millions of victims ofÃâà...
VOA Khmer
April 24, 2018
Some twenty years ago, on April 15, 1998, the Khmer Rouge leader whose reign of terror cost the lives of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians, died of apparent heart failure at 73. His fellow cadres, who by then had turned on him, unceremoniously cremated his corpse here with his personal belongings onÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 23, 2018
A woman with short-cropped hair stares directly into the camera, her head cocked slightly to the side. On her lap is a sleeping infant just barely in the frame. The woman was the wife of a Khmer Rouge officer who fell out of favour, and one of thousands of prisoners at S-21 whose photograph was taken onÃâà...
VOA Khmer
April 19, 2018
The documentary was directed by Neary Adeline Hay and is about victims and survivors of the Khmer Rouge encountering perpetrators years later, according to the festival. Neary Adeline Hay was born in Cambodia in 1981 and studied film in France. The 71-minute documentary is in Khmer and FrenchÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 18, 2018
A memorial to Khmer Rouge victims – the first of its kind in Europe – was unveiled in Paris on Tuesday by Mayor Anne Hidalgo, 43 years after Phnom Penh fell to the ultra-Maoist regime. When the Khmer Rouge took Cambodia's capital on April 17, 1975, it immediately began rounding up city dwellers andÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 16, 2018
When the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh on Thursday, April 17, 1975 – 43 years ago today – there were still Khmer New Year offerings out in front of many people's homes. The sound of guns and bombs, which had been heard for days, had disappeared. The sun was shining brilliantly on PhnomÃâà...
Voice of America
April 15, 2018
When she was 11, Bonna Neang woke daily at first light to a Khmer Rouge tune broadcast over a public speaker in a hamlet in Cambodia's rural Banteay Meanchey province. “The bright, fresh red blood was spilled all over the towns and over the plains of Cambodia, our motherland. … ” The child of aÃâà...
The Conversation US
April 15, 2018
Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia's genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73. Born Saloth Sar, Pol Pot was never held accountable for the crimes committed during the three years, eight months and 20 days his Khmer RougeÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 13, 2018
The final remnants of the Khmer Rouge — the radical communists who unleashed a reign of terror upon Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, leading to around a quarter of the population dying of starvation, illness, overwork or murder — controlled this region on the Thai border until late 1998.
The Phnom Penh Post
April 12, 2018
Today, despite the horrors of the killing fields having long since been brought to light, he remains a revered figure for some. “I regret that when Pol Pot died, I could not go to the funeral,” said Chron, now 65. The former chief of a Khmer Rouge bodyguard unit, Chron found Pol Pot a strict operator, but one heÃâà...
The Daily Herald
April 1, 2018
That started to change in the late 1970s, as more refugees from the Khmer Rouge began to reach U.S. soil. His father was perhaps the best known. A journalist, Dith Pran stayed after his family fled to tell the world about his country's descent into chaos. Over the following years, he survived as communistÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 1, 2018
President Donald Trump blasted California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday for his pardon of five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two who fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia with their families four decades ago. In a tweet , Trump referred to Brown as "Moonbeam," referencing a nickname aÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
March 31, 2018
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday pardoned five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two whose families fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia four decades ago. The pardons don't automatically stop deportation proceedings, but eliminate the state convictions federal authorities based theirÃâà...
Media Matters for America
March 30, 2018
They were called the Khmer Rouge, just like the marchers, who didn't wear red bandannas, they wore arm bands. They wore arm bands, this group in America. Like Hitler Youth wore arm bands, these clowns wore arm bands, these stupid, useful idiots. And in Cambodia they wore red brigades -- I'm sorry,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
As soon as he got to Cambodia, though, Mr. Tran was captured by fighters for the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. They forced him to drink vinegar, believing he had swallowed gold and family jewels that the vinegar would help expel. Then they made the 17-year-old their slave, forcing him to dig wells.
Davis Enterprise
March 20, 2018
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis will host a free screening and discussion of a documentary about the Khmer Rouge from 7 to 9 p.m. March 30 in the church sanctuary at 27074 Patwin Road. “Daze of Justice” follows a group of Cambodian-American women who were civil parties in a historic trialÃâà...
Lowell Sun
March 13, 2018
About 90 percent of Cambodia's artists did not survive the Khmer Rouge regime, but Chorn-Pond is a survivor. Born into a family of artists, he was sent to a children's labor camp. Under the instruction of a master artist, he survived by playing propaganda music. "They then took my instruments away andÃâà...
The Australian
March 9, 2018
Those soldiers were from the Khmer Rouge army, led by Pol Pot, who wanted to restructure Cambodian society into his vision of an agrarian utopia. The people he had marched out of every city were forced to become farmers and grow rice on communal farms in the countryside. Moreover, he envisioned aÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
March 4, 2018
This photo taken on Feb 25, 2018 shows former Khmer Rouge cadre Im Chaem smilling broadly at her home in Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province. Breaking into a broad smile, former Khmer Rouge cadre Im Chaem describes the relief she has felt since her baptism -- part of a new spiritualÃâà...
Daily Herald
March 2, 2018
In this Feb. 5, 2018, photo, a plastic tray loaded with former plates and bowls used by victims of the Khmer Rouge are on display in a laboratory in the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. International textile conservationist Julia Brennan has just began the massive preservationÃâà...
The Hindu
March 2, 2018
Brennan recently began a project at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, where the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s tortured as many as 17,000 men, women and children before killing them. The museum's macabre artefacts include torture devices and displays of skulls.
VOA Khmer
March 2, 2018
Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge commander, has sought to have the court dissolved and urged the tribunal not to prosecute more ... Differences between the Cambodian judges, who argue that Tith was not one of those “most responsible” for the Khmer Rouge regime's crimes, andÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 1, 2018
Nuon Chea (left) and Khieu Samphan sit in the dock during the announcement of the Supreme Court Chamber in the ECCC's appeal judgment on Case 002/01 in November 2016. They have both been found fit for trial ahead of a second judgement, expected to be handed down mid-2018. ECCCÃâà...
Crosscut
March 1, 2018
Like many Cambodians, Khliu came to the U.S. after escaping the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime, which claimed the lives of millions from 1975 to 1979. After living in a refugee camp in Thailand for approximately two years and spending a few months in the Philippines, Khliu arrived in the U.S. withÃâà...
VOA Khmer
February 21, 2018
FILE: Cambodian students from the Royal University of Fine Arts re-enact torture executed by the Khmer Rouge during their reign of terror in the 1970s to mark the annual Day of Anger at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field" dotted with mass graves, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia,Ãâà...
Voice of America
February 17, 2018
Im Chaem, a former Khmer Rouge official who was charged by a United Nations-backed tribunal with crimes against humanity including mass murder, extermination and enslavement, has converted to Christianity under the tutelage of a man who survived a forced labor camp she oversaw. “I was redeemedÃâà...
Voice of America
February 16, 2018
During the 21 months he spent in a Cambodian prison, Bou Meng strangely felt at ease in the clothing he wore. Bou Meng was jailed in the late 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. He was held at a secret, but now infamous Khmer Rouge prison called S-21. Prison officials gave him blackÃâà...
Voice of America
February 8, 2018
During the 21 months he spent imprisoned in the secret Khmer Rouge prison code-named S-21, Bou Meng found a strange comfort in his prison uniform: black cotton shorts and sometimes, when he was lucky, a shirt. “It was very cold at night, as I remember,” he told VOA Khmer in a recent interview.
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
The flight came about five months after civil rights advocates filed a lawsuit challenging the immigration detention of Cambodian nationals, many of whom came to the U.S. as refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge. Late last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained more than 100 CambodianÃâà...
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