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Khmer Rouge's Last Surviving Leader To Serve Genocide Sentence In Cambodia
The last surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been transferred to a Cambodian state prison to serve two life sentences after losing his appeal against a genocide conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Leader Gets Life Sentence After Genocide Conviction
Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal gave its final verdict on Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
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"Asia's Nobel Prize" For Psychiatrist Helping Cambodian Genocide Survivors
A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.
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Head Of Khmer Rouge Torture Prison Dies Aged 77
The former chief interrogator and top torturer for Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died early Wednesday in hospital in Phnom Penh. He was 77.
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Sydney Schanberg, Journalist Who Inspired The Killing Fields, Dead At 82
Sydney Schanberg, a former correspondent whose Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge inspired the movie "The Killing Fields," died on Saturday at age 82, the New York Times and Newsday reported.
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'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Dies at 83
The former "first lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime passed away today, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Angelina Jolie to Direct First They Killed My Father
The film is based on a memoir from Cambodian author and human-rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime
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Cambodia Marks 40 Years Since Evacuation of Phnom Penh
Tearful survivors on Friday marked 40 years to the day since the Khmer Rouge marched on Phnom Penh, ending a civil war but heralding a terror that would kill a quarter of Cambodians and leave the capital a ghost town.
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Cambodia's Self-Taught Doctors, a Khmer Rouge Legacy
When the phone rings, former Khmer Rouge soldier Ken Mon grabs a bag stuffed full of medicine, jumps on his motorbike and heads for an impoverished Cambodian village with the haste of any diligent local doctor.
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UN-Backed Tribunal in Cambodia Jails Khmer Rouge Duo for Life
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters of the twentieth century.
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Khmer Rouge's Last Surviving Leader To Serve Genocide Sentence In Cambodia
The last surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been transferred to a Cambodian state prison to serve two life sentences after losing his appeal against a genocide conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Leader Gets Life Sentence After Genocide Conviction
Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal gave its final verdict on Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
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"Asia's Nobel Prize" For Psychiatrist Helping Cambodian Genocide Survivors
A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.
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Head Of Khmer Rouge Torture Prison Dies Aged 77
The former chief interrogator and top torturer for Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime died early Wednesday in hospital in Phnom Penh. He was 77.
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Sydney Schanberg, Journalist Who Inspired The Killing Fields, Dead At 82
Sydney Schanberg, a former correspondent whose Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge inspired the movie "The Killing Fields," died on Saturday at age 82, the New York Times and Newsday reported.
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'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Dies at 83
The former "first lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime passed away today, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Angelina Jolie to Direct First They Killed My Father
The film is based on a memoir from Cambodian author and human-rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime
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Cambodia Marks 40 Years Since Evacuation of Phnom Penh
Tearful survivors on Friday marked 40 years to the day since the Khmer Rouge marched on Phnom Penh, ending a civil war but heralding a terror that would kill a quarter of Cambodians and leave the capital a ghost town.
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Cambodia's Self-Taught Doctors, a Khmer Rouge Legacy
When the phone rings, former Khmer Rouge soldier Ken Mon grabs a bag stuffed full of medicine, jumps on his motorbike and heads for an impoverished Cambodian village with the haste of any diligent local doctor.
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UN-Backed Tribunal in Cambodia Jails Khmer Rouge Duo for Life
A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced the top two surviving cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime to life in jail on Thursday, delivering a semblance of justice for one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters of the twentieth century.
