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Mean Loeuy (C), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district

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Lessons in horror with Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went...

AFPApril 15, 2025

Survivors of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime welcome a beefed-up Cambodian law that forbids denying the movement's atrocities

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Cambodia genocide denial law open to abuse, say critics

Survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime welcome a beefed-up Cambodian law that forbids denying the movement’s atrocities, but rights advocates and academics warn...

AFPApril 14, 2025

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Cambodia's Anlong Veng

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A coffin for Pol Pot’s memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh’s fall

A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to...

AFPApril 13, 2025

Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre himself, previously introduced a law punishing those who deny atrocities committed by the movement

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Cambodia approves draft law punishing Khmer Rouge genocide denial

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...

AFPJanuary 25, 2025

Khieu Samphan, pictured in June 23, 2017, was given a life sentence in 2018 for genocide against ethnic-minority Vietnamese by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

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Cambodia Khmer Rouge court upholds conviction in final ruling

Cambodia’s UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime’s last...

AFPSeptember 22, 2022