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Nov 30, 2023 · A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
Apr 27, 2020 · Corbis/Getty Images. When President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. ground troops to invade Cambodia on April 28, 1970, he waited two days to announce on national television the Cambodian incursion had ...
Jul 2, 2014 · The population of Cambodia today is about 10 million. About 90-95 percent of the people are Khmer ethnic. The remaining 5-10 percent include Chinese-Khmers, Khmer Islam or Chams, ethnic hill-tribe people, known as the Khmer Loeu, and Vietnamese. About 10 percent of the population lives in Phnom Penh, the capital, making Cambodia largely a ...
Jan 13, 2019 · The Khmer people of Cambodia have ethnic ties to southern Asia and practice a hybrid Buddhist-Hindu faith. Just as the Vietnamese historically resisted imperial occupation by China, the Khmer ...
May 8, 2024 · “Simply put, Cambodia went back to Year Zero,” he said of the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-1979 rule, explaining that it had “resulted in the total collapse of institutions and the loss of nearly 2 ...
Oct 20, 2016 · October 20, 2016. Two insightful articles have appeared in recent months renewing the debate about anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia. On September 6, Tim Frewer published a lengthy piece in ...
Feb 22, 2024 · Driven by the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime, Vietnam intervened, toppling the genocidal government but leaving a legacy of deep mistrust and resentment. The Khmer Rouge’s targeting of Vietnamese communities – with the chilling term “cáp duồn” (to behead Vietnamese) still echoing in some ears – cast a long shadow on relations.
