Khmer Rouge News
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The crowds that lined the route as Margaret Thatcher’s coffin passed through central London today reflected the division of opinion in Britain over her legacy.
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Ieng Sary, one of several senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime on trial for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, died today in Phnom Penh at the age of 87, according to the court.
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Just before sunset, Andrew Booth is sipping a gin and tonic aboard a boat carved like a golden phoenix in the moat surrounding Angkor Thom. One of several capitals of the Khmer empire (802 to 1431), Angkor Thom is part of Angkor Archaeological Park, a 400-square-kilometer Unesco World Heritage Site whose most famous attraction, Angkor Wat, draws some 2 million visitors a year.
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The Khmer Rouge’s top jailer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for overseeing the “shocking and heinous” murder and torture of more than 12,000 inmates at the genocidal Cambodian regime’s Tuol Sleng prison .
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The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia indicted four senior leaders of the 1970s regime blamed for the deaths of a quarter of the population three years after putting them behind bars, ensuring they will face trial.
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The first man on the moon, the first U.S. woman in space and the first black Federal Reserve member were among the notable deaths in 2012.
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Cambodia’s genocide tribunal has indicted four former senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge, including former head of state Khieu Samphan, the Associated Press reported.
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Norodom Sihanouk, the former king of Cambodia who survived half a century of political maneuvering that saw his country get sucked into the Vietnam War and endure the murderous regime of Pol Pot, has died. He was 89.
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Min Sovannry wasn’t born when the Communist Khmer Rouge took power in 1975 and abolished Cambodia’s money, markets and financial system. Now the 21-year- old college student can’t wait to embrace capitalism.
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“We wanted a clear message from Obama that the U.S. will continue to support democracy in Afghanistan,” Fawzia Koofi, a lawmaker and human-rights activist, said this month. “It’s the only alternative to Talibanization.”
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