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Khmer Rouge

March 2023

  • Clare Arthurs, a former BBC journalist, sits in front of an artwork she bought from Cambodian artisit Vann Nath

    Wall stories
    ‘After chaos, there can be calm’: Khmer Rouge survivor’s painting is a reminder of peace

    In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clare Arthurs shows us the painting she bought from renowned Cambodian artist Vann Nath that has become a beacon for her

September 2022

  • Ukraine continues to exhume bodies from Izium, Cemetery, Kharkiv Oblast - 21 Sep 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vudi Xhymshiti/VX/REX/Shutterstock (13410527o) Two Ukrainian servicemen on foot patrol Izium's sandy pine forest dotted with tombs in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, Sept 21, 2022. Ukraine's forensic experts continue to exhume the bodies of Izium residents on the 6th day of exhumation. Last week, 450 graves were discovered in forests outside Izium after the Ukrainian city was recaptured from the Russians. Ukrainian officials claim that 99 per cent of the exhumed bodies show signs of violent death. The Kremlin has denied the allegations as "lies", while the EU presidency has called for creating an international war crimes tribunal. Ukraine continues to exhume bodies from Izium, Cemetery, Kharkiv Oblast - 21 Sep 2022

    The Guardian view on pursuing crimes against humanity: a laborious yet urgent challenge

  • a creased black and white photo of five sisters in height order, from a teenager to a toddler

    ‘I lost them all’: a family’s sole survivor recalls their slow death under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge

  • Khieu Samphan holding a piece of paper during his appeal at the Cambodian tribunal

    Cambodia court rejects genocide appeal of last surviving Khmer Rouge leader

  • Tim Page’s photograph of soldiers from the US 173rd Airborne Brigade supported by helicopters during the Iron Triangle assault in Vietnam, 1965.

    Tim Page obituary

April 2022

  • Robert Ashe

    Other lives
    Robert Ashe obituary

    Other lives: Humanitarian aid worker who helped people flee from the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

August 2021

  • Back in Cambodia ... Angkar.

    Angkar review – sublime documentary contends with legacy of Khmer Rouge

    Neary Adeline Hay’s film follows her father back to Cambodia and the sites of appalling abuse in a painful struggle to come to terms with atrocious memories

April 2021

  • A tourist looks at portraits of Khmer Rouge victims on display at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

    Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling

    Colourised images from Tuol Sleng prison during 1970s genocide were manipulated, media group says

September 2020

  • Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader ‘Comrade Duch’ was serving a life sentence when he died.

    Comrade Duch, Khmer Rouge chief executioner, dies in Cambodia

    Figure who ran Cambodia’s most notorious prison during genocidal regime of Pol Pot died on Wednesday

August 2019

  • FILES-CAMBODIA-KHMER-ROUGE-GENOCIDE-POLITICS<br>(FILES) In this file handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on August 29, 2011, former Khmer Rouge leader “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea is seen in the courtroom at the ECCC in Phnom Penh. - hmer Rouge ‘brother number two’ Nuon Chea died on August 4, 2019 aged 93, a spokesman for the Cambodia tribunal where he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity told AFP. (Photo by MARK PETERS / ECCC / AFP) / ----EDITORS NOTE---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO /MARK PETERS / ECCC” NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSMARK PETERS/AFP/Getty Images

    Nuon Chea obituary

    Cambodian politician and member of the Khmer Rouge who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity

April 2019

  • General Le Duc Anh, left, is welcomed to Cuba by Fidel Castrol in 1995.

    General Le Duc Anh obituary

    Former hardline communist president of Vietnam whose career spanned the wars against France, the US and Cambodia

November 2018

  • A man cleans a skull near a mass grave at the Chaung Ek torture camp run by the Khmer Rouge.

    No more Khmer Rouge prosecutions, says Cambodia

  • a row of skulls of the victims of the khmer rouge regime in cambodia

    Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in Cambodia’s ‘Nuremberg’ moment

August 2018

  • Bui Tin, centre, a colonel with the North Vietnamese army, shakes hands with one of the last US servicemen to leave Saigon with the final withdrawal of American forces in March 1973.

    Bui Tin obituary

    Vietnamese soldier and journalist who fought against France and the US before becoming a critic of the communist government

October 2017

  • The Independence Monument in central Phnom Penh designed by Vann Molyvann.

    Vann Molyvann obituary

    Architect often described as ‘the man who built Cambodia’ and who transformed Phnom Penh into an elegant city

September 2017

  • Angelina Jolie

    The Observer profile
    Angelina Jolie: an actor of style and a director of substance

    Keen to make films about subjects many would avoid, the film star and activist is as likely to be found discussing the Khmer Rouge, subject of her new film, as featuring in glamour magazines

August 2017

  • Cambodian PM Hun Sen

    Cambodia threatens purge of critical media and US charity

    As general election looms, prime minister Hun Sen tells English-language newspaper Cambodia Daily to pay $6m tax bill or leave

July 2017

  • Angelina Jolie at a press conference for First They Killed My Father in Cambodia earlier this year.

    Angelina Jolie defends child-casting 'game' for Cambodia film

    Actor says reports of alleged exploitation in casting for Netflix Khmer Rouge movie First They Killed My Father are ‘false and upsetting’

January 2017

  • First They Killed My Father.

    The Audio Long Read
    Among the ghosts of Cambodia’s killing fields: on the set of Angelina Jolie’s new film – podcast

    Can the Hollywood star’s Khmer-language film – with an all-Cambodian cast and crew – help a nation to confront the horrors of its past?

November 2016

  • Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea arriving at the court in Phnom Penh.

    Cambodian court upholds life sentences for Khmer Rouge leaders

    Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan – first leaders of murderous regime to be jailed – lose appeal against conviction over deaths of two million Cambodians
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