Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan attends the closing statement in case 002/02 against former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea ...

The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 ...

Two Khmer Rouge leaders were jailed for life Thursday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, the first sentences against top figures of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ...

Two senior leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime face a verdict Friday on genocide charges, in a ruling that experts say will bring down the curtain on the troubled UN-backed tribunal’s quest for ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Khieu Samphan, who was convicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role as a leader of the communist Khmer Rouge when ...

Nuon Chea, 88 the famously brutal chief ideologue and Number Two to dictator Pol Pot, and Khieu Samphan, 83, the former head of state, faced charges in a UN-backed genocidal tribunal that included ...

A frail 86-year-old former Khmer Rouge leader has expressed remorse and accepted responsibility for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people during the organisation's murderous rule in the 1970s.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes ...