Comrade Duch ran Phnom Penh's S-21 prison, also known as Tuol Sleng, the most notorious Khmer Rouge torture site. It is thought that at least 15,000 men, women and children deemed enemies of the ...

a special branch of the Khmer Rouge tasked with internal security. He and his supporters also set up prisons, including the notorious torture center of the Tuol Sleng S-21 prison where more than ...

In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an agrarian utopia. The ...

Forced confessions under the current regime echo Khmer Rouge tactics, targeting dissenters and silencing critics both within ...

Nuon Chea, a Cambodian politician and a chief ideologue as part of the notorious Khmer Rouge, died Sunday at age ... and the commandant of the S-21 torture and extermination center Kang Guek ...

"No what matter what you decide I will die in prison… that’s the end," Khieu Samphan told the court. The impending closure of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal must be recognized as the beginning of a ...

For nearly five years in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of ... Norng Chan Phal, a survivor of Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison. Norng Chan Phal, 53, is one of the few ...

But away from the courtroom, some survivors of one of the 20th Century's greatest horrors ... Kraing Ta Chan was a prison focused on during the second trial of Khmer Rouge second-in-command ...

He is best known for heading the Khmer Rouge special branch and running the infamous Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp in Phnom Penh. He is the first Khmer Rouge leader being tried by the ...

In 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, grabbed power in Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, one of the group’s leaders who was ... into a network of barbaric prison-like labor camps.

In the process, the Khmer Rouge allegedly caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians, about a quarter of the country’s population ... sentenced to life in prison or given other ...