(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sophal Ear, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) On April 17, 1975, tanks ...

How did the Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1970s Cambodia? FLORIDA TODAY's Christina LaFortune talks with Investigations Reporter Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon about the horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ...

(Reuters) - Prosecutors for Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal began laying out their case on Monday in the first trial of a senior Pol Pot cadre since the fall of the regime blamed for 1.7 million ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Thirty years after the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people, the first trial of his top cadres begins on Feb. 17. A handful of ageing ...

Khmer Rouge forces collect weapons left behind by retreating soldiers as they enter Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Roland Neveu/LightRocket via Getty Images On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed ...

Meticulous. Conscientious. Control oriented. Attentive to detail. Seeks recognition from his superiors. That's how a psychiatrist for Cambodia's genocide tribunal described 66-year-old Kaing Guek Eav, ...

Movie"The film recounts the bombing of Cambodia by the U.S. in 1970, the subsequent brutality and genocide that occurred when Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge militia took over, and finally the amount of ...