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Top woman leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge dies at 83

August 30, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Ieng Thirith, a Khmer Rouge leader who was the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s, died Aug. 22, her family and U.N. officials said. She was 83 years old. Ieng Thirith was […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Associated Press, Cambodia, Documentation Center, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Ieng Vuth, Khieu Ponnary, Khieu Samphan, Khieu Thirith, Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea, Paris, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, United Nations-backed, Vol 34 No 36 | August 29 - September 4

1st Cambodia genocide trial aims to expose crimes

October 25, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)—The first trial on charges of genocide against Cambodia’s brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime opened Friday with a prosecutor saying it will show that Cambodians were enslaved in inhumane conditions that led to the deaths of 1.7 million people from starvation, disease, and execution.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Bopha Om, Cambodia Islamic Association, Chea Leang, Documentation Center, Ieng Thirith, Kaing Guek Eav, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, Lyma Nguyen, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, Simach Smam, Vann Math, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 44 | October 25 - October 31, Youk Chhang

Life terms sought for Khmer two

October 26, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Justine Drennan and Sopheng Cheang The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Prosecutors at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal requested life imprisonment for two of the regime’s surviving leaders, issuing an emotional appeal for justice for the millions who died or suffered through the group’s reign of terror nearly 40 years ago.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, 2014, Cambodia, Co-prosecutor Chea Leang, Ieng Thirith, Kaing Guek Eav, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, Vol 32 No 44 | October 26 - November 1

Ex-leader in court says Khmer Rouge not ‘bad people,’ blames Vietnam

December 10, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A former leader of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime told a court that he and his comrades were not “bad people,” denying responsibility last Monday, Dec. 5, for the deaths of 1.7 million people during their 1970s rule and blaming Vietnam for any atrocities.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Cambodia, Chum Mey, Ieng Sary, Kaing Guek Eav, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge, Lars Olsen, Nuon Chea, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, Vietnamese, Vol 30 No 50 | December 10 - December 16

‘Killing fields’ victims await Khmer Rouge trial

November 21, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) _ Survivors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime held a remembrance ceremony in an infamous “killing field” Sunday, a day before a U.N.-backed tribunal begins a trial for three of the accused architects of some of the 20th century’s worst atrocities. Relatives of the victims wept as they chanted and burned incense […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Cambodia, Huy Vannak, Ieng Sary, Kaing Guek Eav, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouges, Nuon Chea, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot, Vietnam War

Khmer Rouge torturer recounts baby-killing policy

June 11, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime’s victims could never take revenge for their parents’ deaths, the group’s chief jailer testified on Monday, June 8.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Kaing Guek Eav, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea, Phnom Penh, Son Sen, Tuol Sleng, vol 28 no 25 | June 13 - June 19

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