Many of them live and work in South Philly’s Whitman section, where the unofficial Cambodia Town neighborhood centers on ...

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland ...

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief of S-21, Kaing Guek Eav (C), better known as "Duch", stands in the dock of the court room at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Cambodia ...

Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, fell to the genocidal Khmer Rouge 40 years ago today At least 1.7 million people were killed in the subsequent four years, before the regime was driven out Decades ...

The last surviving senior leader of Cambodia’s radical Khmer Rouge regime has had an appeal against his conviction for genocide rejected at a war crimes tribunal in the capital Phnom Penh. The ruling ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

Cambodian and international journalists watch a live video feed showing former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan during a hearing for his trial at the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of ...

It’s farmers market and food truck season around Tacoma. Find a different lunch every Thursday at one new event, with more ...

In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to ...

Below is an overview of the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge: 1953: King Norodom Sihanouk proclaims independence from France, but soon abdicates to go into politics. March 1969: Secret U.S. bombing of ...

On the stage of a TV studio in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong is telling an engrossed audience a tragic, but familiar, story. On April 17, 1975 – 40 years ago today – life as Ly knew it was ...