In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into ... center code-named ‘S21’ was the schoolhouse-turned prison ...

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 ...

Former Khmer Rouge commander Sam Bith was sentenced by a Phnom Penh court on Monday to life behind bars for the 1994 abduction and murder of three Western backpackers. The ex-regular army ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Hun Sen: Cambodia's strongman prime minister How two men survived a prison where 12,000 died Although there are cases against four other Khmer Rouge members, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has ...

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 ...

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.