Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge ravaged Cambodia, killing between one and two million people before its murderous regime was ousted by a Vietnamese invasion. While Cambodia is far from Iraq and ...
PHNOM PENH, Mar 28 2012 (IPS) - For four years, Wan Preung toiled in the fields under the Khmer Rouge, unable to speak his mind. But after the regime fell in 1979, there was still one sensitive ...
PHNOM SROK, Cambodia — Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labor camp. "At the ...
Walker Hedgepath had yet to visit the Kingdom when he became fascinated by Cambodia, its people, language and culture. While studying for a bachelor’s degree in the US, he got to know Cambodians at ...
hmer Rouge regime collapsed more than 30 yeas ago, however its bitter legacy remains deep in the heart of the Cambodian people. During its short reign from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge ruled with a ...
One of the saddest episodes of Southeast Asian history was the period during the 1970s that witnessed the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The group was driven by a warped ideology, and it ...
Mean Loeuy (C), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district ...