Khmer Rouge News

Cambodian society at large is soul-searching and trying to figure out how to as a nation address war-crimes accusations against former Khmer Rouge commanders, some of whom are now in the government.

Cambodia has just turned up the heat on a year-long battle with a New York auction house by enlisting help from the US government to recover a thousand-year-old statue it suspects was looted from their country during the bloody Khmer Rouge genocide.

China considers that keeping a relationship with the Khmer Rouge was nothing other than a normal 'diplomatic relationship'. Hence, the nation continued defending her ties with the Khmer Rouge as the trial of a former commander of Khmer Rouge is underway.

First trial of a Khmer Rouge leader began in Cambodia. According to news reports the special United Nations as well as Cambodia tribunal will try the former leader.

In the midst of the genocide tribunal for former members of the Khmer Rouge, a top prosecutor said that proof of direct link is needed in extrajudicial cases.

Kaing Guek Eav was the head of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison. Last year he was taken into by the UN-assisted tribunal. Tuesday he was taken to the killing fields to see what his actions had done in the past.

Nuon Chea, the senior surviving leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime has appeared before the court to appeal against his detention by a tribunal to try those with genocide. He was the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot’s second in command.

On Tuesday, January 15, the judges from Cambodia’s genocide tribunal met for the first time with former members of the Khmer Rouge in one of their last strongholds. The judges urged them to cooperate with the court.

In support of the trials of the former Khmer Rouge leaders, Buddhist monks and nuns by the hundreds have marched in Cambodia in the support of the upcoming trials. Religious institutions have been persecuted when the Khmer Rouge was in power.

Cambodian and international judges are meeting to discuss the rules to be applied during the trials of the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge.