Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia have been accused of many atrocities, but today a 68 year-old transgender woman added a new dimension to the saga when she revealed shocking details of her oppression under...
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" Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary has appeared before Cambodia's genocide tribunal to appeal against his detention. The 82-year-old has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Maoist regime's four-year rule in the late...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCelebrities complete with their entourages on a Worldwide Mission Protesting injustices, sticking their Celebrity Noses into Diplomatic affairs in which they have...
One of the top known surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia was arrested today. Nuon Chea at the age of 82 years old was taken Phnom Penn, Cambodia for a hearing in front of A U.N backed genocide...
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The piece bellow is today's editorial of the New Zealand based "The Dominion Post" Tuesday, 28 August. It highlights the increasingly difficult position the Bush government finds itself in.The Dominion Post...
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This one sent my corruption-meter into the red. I thought the point of the Khmer Rouge trials was to, well, put the Khmer Rouge leaders o n trial, not raise funds for the Cambodian Bar Association. In the...
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In Cambodia's capitol city of Phnom Penh, a protest on behalf of the Khmer diaspora turned violent. The basis of the protest was the religious freedoms of the Khmer living in a Vietnamese region that once belonged to Cambodia."At least two Buddhist monks were injured Friday...
From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime jailed between 17,000 and
20,000 Cambodians at "S-21," a high school-turned-prison in the
country's capitol, Phnom Penh.The prisoners—many of them educated or politically affiliated members
of Cambodian society—were deemed enemies...
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" By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 13, 4:05 PM ET ANLONG VENG, Cambodia - Call it crass, macabre or educational, but Pol Pot's shabby grave and a towering stack of his victims' skulls are drawing a growing number of visitors to Cambodia's genocide trail....
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