Vong, a former Khmer Rouge soldier, became a symbol of national unity after standing firm during a recent border standoff with Thai soldiers at Ta Moan. “If you want to shoot, shoot,” he told Thai ...

Novelist Namwali Serpell, writing in The New Yorker recently, coined a phrase that’s lingered in my mind every day since.

The Khmer Rouge didn’t like literacy either ... As he said himself, “symbols matter”, but they matter because they have not changed. The King should be proud of the church in which he ...

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...

Cambodian politicians have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. A statement from the National Assembly ...

(AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File) In 2013 Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then-Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a leading ...

On February 18, Cambodia’s Ministry of Justice released a statement regarding an opinion article I had published in Radio Free Asia (RFA) a few days earlier, headlined, “Banning Khmer Rouge ...

In 2013, Cambodia enacted a similar law against denying Khmer Rouge atrocities after then–Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the measure. He claimed that a leading opposition lawmaker suggested ...

The Cambodian government has passed a law to counter those who would deny the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge who ruled this country between 1975 and 1979, when up to a third of the population ...