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The genocide is a locus of Cambodian memory today. Under the Vietnamese occupation, part of the Tuol Sleng Prison, also called S-21, was converted into a museum, and today it sees significant visitation from Cambodians and foreign tourists alike. Signs across the rural countryside mark the sites of former killing fields.
- What Happened Under The Khmer Rouge?
- What Happened When The Regime Fell?
- How Is The Legacy of The Cambodian Genocide Felt Today?
In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge overtook Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, toppling a U.S.-backed, right-wing government. The insurgents were driven by Marxist ideology and their army was led by a man called Pol Pot, who had earlier lived in France and became a member of the communist party there. Upon returning to his homeland, he quickly rose up the...
The Khmer Rouge’s formal control came to an end when Vietnam invaded the capital on Jan. 7, 1979. But even then, the Khmer Rouge was seen by many in the West as a powerful challenge to Vietnamese influence in Cambodia, and maintained support and military assistance from the U.S. and other Western countries. From 1979-1990, the Khmer Rouge held onto...
As one of the worst mass killings of the 20th century, the genocide’s legacy still haunts Cambodia in a number of ways. Cambodia historian David Chandler says that, as time wears on, Cambodians are steadily overcoming the trauma. “It’s all moving slowly into the past,” he says. Cambodia is a young country, with nearly half its population under the ...
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Sep 22, 2022 · Sept. 22, 2022. For more than 15 years, a court in a military camp on the outskirts of Phnom Penh worked to bring some measure of justice for the horrors that killed nearly a quarter of Cambodia ...
Nov 16, 2018 · 16 November 2018. Reuters. The pair are already serving life sentences. For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon ...
Sep 23, 2022 · Cambodia’s UN-backed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge has upheld a genocide conviction against the regime’s last surviving leader, more than 40 years after Pol Pot’s brutal communist regime fell.
Sep 22, 2022 · Former Khmer Rouge official Khieu Samphan, pictured here in 2010, had been convicted of genocide in 2018. The special tribunal in Cambodia set up to examine atrocities under the fanatical rule of ...
Mar 16, 2022 · Mr. Ma Simet, 32, took a job deactivating land mines to spare his new wife the danger. Before he and Ms. Khuon Savin married, she worked for a nongovernmental group called Cambodian Self Help ...