PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of ...

Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people. On ...

Nuon Chea, 92, who was the No. 2 leader of the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979 and Khieu Samphan, the 87-year-old former head of state of the brutal... The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal ...

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, center, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, sits in the court room during a hearing ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last living leader from the inner circle of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime launched his courtroom appeal Monday, seeking to convince a long-running international ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule ...

The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge “Killing Field” about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of ...

In his Aug. 18 Ideas piece, “It’s time to retire the word ‘genocide,’ ” Stephen Kinzer asserts that the term “genocide” is often used inappropriately in situations where it does not apply. Accordingly ...

One of the top surviving leaders of Cambodia's ruthless Khmer Rouge regime on Friday denied genocide charges and rejected being labelled a "murderer" in forceful closing remarks at a lengthy UN-backed ...

The official ceremony honoring the victims of what a U.N.-backed tribunal judged to be genocide was held at Choeung Ek, site of a Khmer Rouge "Killing Field" about 15 kilometers (10 miles) south of ...