Khmer Rouge Regime

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  Head Of Khmer Rouge Torture Prison Dies Aged 77

  The former chief interrogator and top torturer for Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died early Wednesday in hospital in Phnom Penh. He was 77.

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  'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Dies at 83

  The former "first lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime passed away today, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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  Angelina Jolie to Direct First They Killed My Father

  The film is based on a memoir from Cambodian author and human-rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime

• UN-Backed Tribunal in Cambodia Jails Khmer Rouge Duo for Life

  A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters of the twentieth century.

• Cambodia Tribunal Convicts Khmer Rouge Leaders

  Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1970s terror period that left close to 2 million people dead.

• International Tribunal in Cambodia Jails Khmer Rouge Cadres for Life

  A United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the two top surviving cadres of the Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday after finding them guilty of crimes against humanity for their roles in the 1970s "killing fields" revolution.

• Verdicts Due Against Cambodian Khmer Rouge Leaders

  Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed war crimes tribunal is due to deliver its first verdicts on Thursday in a historic case against the last two living leaders of the regime to stand trial.

• Cambodia Awaits Verdict on Ex-Khmer Rouge Leaders

  Haunted for decades by the death of 46 relatives under the Khmer Rouge, Ung Simonavy is hoping to find some solace this week when Cambodia's UN-backed court delivers verdicts on two former regime leaders for the first time.

• Khmer Rouge Tribunal to Tackle Genocide Charges

  The slow course of justice for the leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime will inch forward again on Wednesday, as a U.N.-backed tribunal holds an initial hearing against a pair of defendants in their 80s facing genocide and other charges.

• Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' Hospitalised in Thailand: Son

  The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said Friday.

• Cambodia Remembers Khmer Rouge Victims on 'Day of Anger'

  About 1,000 people Tuesday marked Cambodia's annual "Day of Anger" against the genocidal former Khmer Rouge regime, with black-clad students wielding hoes and bamboo sticks to mimic their crimes in the late 1970s.

• Khmer Rouge genocide: justice delayed may be justice denied

  Under Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge, Meas Mut and Sou Met, now two-star generals in their 80s, are said to have hauled prisoners to S-21, a torture centre that symbolised the horrors of a regime that wiped out nearly a quarter of the population.

• Court frees 'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime

  The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime was freed on Sunday, a court official said, after the country's war crimes tribunal ruled she was unfit to stand trial. Ieng Thirith, 80, who experts say suffers from Alzheimer's disease, was released from the purpose-built detention facility at the court where she has been held sin...

• Khmer Rouge trial hears prison torture horrors

  Prosecutors on Tuesday gave harrowing details of the torture and execution of thousands of Cambodians as they laid their case against the Khmer Rouge regime's prison chief for the first time.