As a girl, Lisa Kuong was denied schooling in Cambodia. As an American, she dove into learning, finding her calling as a ...

Samath “Sam” Thoeun entered the U.S. as a baby in 1988 after his family fled the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. He ...

When Thai soldiers forced families from their homes in Banteay Meanchey province's Prey Chan village, one local woman in her ...

He and his singing partner, Ros Serey Sothea, drew from a wide range of Western and local influences. They disappeared after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975. By Mike Ives ...

PAILIN, Cambodia – Police arrested the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader today, taking Nuon Chea to appear before a U.N-backed genocide tribunal for his role in the 1970s Cambodian regime blamed for ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 149.

The Khmer Rouge was ousted by a Vietnamese invasion in 1979. In Phnom Penh this week, busloads of Cambodians came to watch the final proceedings of a tribunal that had aimed to bring justice ...

On Friday, the tribunal convicted and gave life sentences to Nuon Chea, 92, the main Khmer Rouge ideologist and right-hand man to its late leader Pol Pot, and Khieu Samphan, 87, who was the regime ...

During the Vietnam War, the container ship USS Mayaguez was seized by the Communist Party of Kampuchea’s troops, better known ...

The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 and immediately herded almost all the city’s residents into the countryside, where they were forced to toll in harsh conditions until in ...

The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million Cambodians in the 70s. Decades later, a tribunal was set up to help find justice. 15 years later, it's ending having found just three people guilty.

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. By Ben Kenigsberg Foreign institutions and collectors are ...