When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French ...

When the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, he was held up in the French embassy, and expelled a few days later, on 8 May, one of the last foreigners to leave Cambodia. He ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge, a spokesman said Saturday.

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

Under the seven-article bill, people who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ will be jailed between one to five years and could face fines of $2,500 (10 million riel) to $125,000 ...

The United States has been a "key partner" and provided around $10 million a year to fund mine clearance in Cambodia, he said ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal ...

Phnom Penh (AFP ... law -- which aims to prevent a repeat of the Khmer Rouge's crimes and to provide justice for victims -- was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister ...

Phnom Penh, in 1975. Almost immediately, the deadly purges began. The victims numbered anyone perceived as challenging the visions of Khmer Rouge strongman Pol Pot to remold Cambodia into an ...

Since 2000, after retiring from the Université Lumière – Lyon 2, Locard has lived in Phnom Penh and worked as a consultant with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He is now a visiting professor at the ...