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Four leaders of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia in the late 1970s, will face trial next year accused of genocide, torture and religious persecution. But many of those affected by the country’s brutal past still cannot speak about what happened. The psychologist had agreed to be interviewed before I arrived in Phnom Penh. But [...]

ANLONG VENG, CAMBODIA — In a dimly lighted concrete classroom with smudged and peeling walls, the principal of Anlong Veng High School recalled the man who had built it, the late Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok. “Everyone here loves Ta Mok. He was a good leader, and he cared about his people,” said Sreng Kor [...]

On an unseasonably cool evening last month, nearly 700 people filed into the Chenla Theater for the final night of the inaugural Cambodia International Film Festival. The four-day event had drawn sizable audiences to films from more than 30 countries, but it was the premiere on this night of a Cambodian film called “Lost Loves” [...]

PHNOM PENH — When the destroyer USS Mustin docks in Cambodia next week it will be more than just a routine mission for the ship’s commander. Michael Misiewicz is Cambodian by birth and was just a child when he was wrenched from his family and homeland 37 years ago, to be sent away from the [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Defence lawyers for a former Khmer Rouge prison chief have formally appealed his conviction for war crimes and other offenses that landed him a 19-year jail sentence. Kang Ritheary, a Cambodian lawyer representing Kaing Guek Eav — also known as Duch — said Monday his team has filed the appeal with [...]

Forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge was physically and mentally harmful to both men and women alike, a legal expert said Monday. “Both of them were victims, not just women,” said Duong Savorn, a project coordinator for the Cambodia Defenders Project, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” “The organization forced them to marry those whom [...]

More than 300 victims of the Khmer Rouge, many of them Cham Muslim, gathered at the Documentation Center of Cambodia on Wednesday to learn more about genocide charges for the upcoming trial of four regime leaders. Chams suffered to a great degree under the Khmer Rouge, and their plight in part makes up the charges [...]

PHNOM PENH — Stumbling across the photo of his twin brother who died more than three decades ago was the last thing former Khmer Rouge fighter Uch Sokhon expected on a visit to Cambodia’s genocide museum. “I feel shocked,” the 53-year-old said, gently wiping the dusty glass frame holding a black-and-white image of his brother, [...]

PHNOM PENH — Prosecutors at a UN-backed court in Cambodia on Tuesday demanded an increased sentence of life imprisonment for a former Khmer Rouge prison chief convicted of crimes against humanity. Kaing Guek Eav was sentenced in July to 35 years for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people in the late 1970s, reduced to 30 [...]