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Cambodian Youth Program Leader Awarded $25,000 Peace Prize

Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Education, Human Services, Phalen Lim, Employment, Youth Programs, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Immigrants, Immigration, Impact News

Phalen Lim fled Cambodia at the age of 2 in 1975, during the regime of the Khmer Rouge, and has never forgotten what it was like to start over as an i...

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Why a Small Team of Americans is Going to Spend November in Cambodia

Stephen Macfarlane | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Pol Pot, Foreign Affairs, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Duch, Cambodia, New Media, Khmer Rouge Regime, Advocacy, World News
Stephen Macfarlane

A burgeoning international interest in the war crimes tribunal of Kaing Guek Eav (aka Duch, who ran Tuol Sleng and other camps like personal fiefdoms) forces attention back to the photographs.

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"The Conscience of Nhem En" On HBO: A Review

Elyssa Spitzer | Posted 08.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Phnom Penh-Cambodia, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge Regime, The Conscience of Nhem En, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, Entertainment News
Elyssa Spitzer

The premise of the film is powerful because the reality of the Khmer Rouge is horrifying. Do not watch it if the aim is to see something uplifting that makes you think positively about humanity.

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Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge Torturer, Recounts Baby-Killing Policy

AP | SOPHENG CHEANG | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Genocide, Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Trial, Cambodia, Phnom Penh-Cambodia, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the b...

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Khmer Rouge Trials: Duch Calls Pol Pot A 'Murderer'

AP | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Asia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge Regime, Khmer Legacies, Duch, Khmer Rouge Duch, Pol Pot, Genocide, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The former chief jailer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge blamed the group's late leader Pol Pot for its murderous policies as h...

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Corruption Allegations Could Threaten Khmer Rouge Trials

New York Times | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Kaing Guek Eav, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Khmer Legacies, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, The Duch, Khmer Rouge Regime, Khmer Rouge Tribunal Corruption, Advocacy, World News

Even as Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia gain momentum with compelling testimony from the regime's chief torturer, allegations of corruption among the t...

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Khmer Rouge Defendent: US Policies Enabled Cambodian Genocide

News 24 | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot, Foreign Affairs, Genocide, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge Regime, Us-Policies, Advocacy, War Crimes, World News

The man accused of serving as the Khmer Rouge's chief torturer testified on Monday that US policies in the 1970s contributed to the brutal regime's ri...

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Khmer Rouge Defendant Admits Guilt, Expresses 'Heartfelt Sorrow'

AP | GRANT PECK | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Kaing Guek Eav, Killing Fields Trial, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge Regime, Pol Pot, Genocide, Phnom Penh-Cambodia, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The man accused of being the Khmer Rouge's chief torturer put down his prepared speech, removed his eyeglasses and gazed ...

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Jason Linkins

Washington Post Finally Describes Waterboarding As Torture (When Someone Else Does It)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Toture, Media Criticism, Khmer Rouge, Washington Post, Waterboarding, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News

I guess it becomes "torture" when it's being done by genocidal Communist, whose political ideology lacks the beautiful exceptionalism that normally transforms an abhorrent act into a patriotic gesture.

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Khmer Rouge Trials Begin

nytimes.com | SETH MYDANS | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Duch, Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Trial, Cambodia, S-21, Foreign Affairs, Phnom Penh-Cambodia, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The first substantive sessions in the trials of former Khmer Rouge officials began Monday morning, 30 years after the end of t...

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Once isolated from the outside world, Cambodia jumps online

WorldFocus.org | Posted 03.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Tharum Bun, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Regime, Phnom Penh-Cambodia, Cambodia, Home News

Monks head online in Phnom Penh. Several decades ago under the communist Khmer Rouge, Cambodia was isolated and cut off from much of the outs...

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Khmer Rouge Trial Opens In Cambodia (SLIDESHOW)

AP | SOPHENG CHEANG and SUSAN POSTLEWAITE | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Genocide, Duch, Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge Trial, Cambodia, Cambodia Genocide Tribunal, Cambodia Trial, Cambodia Crimes Against Humanity, Slideshow, Khmer Rouge, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The former head of a prison where thousands of Cambodians were tortured then killed for opposing the Khmer Rouge expressed rem...

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Khmer Rouge Prison Torturers Finally Put On Trial

The Independent | Toby Green | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: South East Asia, Pol Pot, The Independent, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Asia, Torture, World News

Beneath the shade of spreading branches in the courtyard of Tuol Sleng prison, Chum Mei slipped off his sandals and demonstrated how Khmer Rouge tortu...

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Cambodia: 30th Anniversary Of Victory Day Sparks Dark Memories

BBC | Guy De Launey | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Victory Day, Vietnam Cambodia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, World News

Exactly 30 years ago, a coalition of Cambodian and Vietnamese troops forced Pol Pot and his followers from power - after a four-year reign which left ...

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Perils of Pakistan -- Will It Prove to be Obama's Cambodia?

George C. Wilson | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

Read More: Lon Nol, US Military, Pakistan Afghan Border, Pakistan, Khmer Rouge, Asif Ali Zardari, Iraq, Kent State University, Taliban, Central Office for South Vietnam, Vietnam Cambodia, COSVN, Benazir Bhutto, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, President-Elect Obama, Taliban Afghanistan, Robert McNamara, Nixon, World News
George C. Wilson

Imagine a worst case scenario of terrorists sneaking just one nuke into New York City and setting it off at lunch hour. Thousands of people could be incinerated and the air poisoned for years.

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Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Isabel Allende, Women, Cambodia, Loung Ung, Media, Women and Media, Feminism, Omega Institute, Darfur, Khmer Rouge, Living News
Marianne Schnall

At an upcoming Women & Courage conference Isabel Allende and Loung Ung will demonstrate that the most direct and powerful way to comprehend human suffering is through compelling, first-hand accounts.

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Democracy, Cambodian Style

Elena Lesley | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hun Sen, Cambodia, Sam Rainsy, Cambodian People's Party, Election, Khmer Rouge, Politics News
Elena Lesley

The ruling Cambodian People's Party has claimed over two-thirds of the vote in Sunday's election, a win that will tighten the party's grip on political power.

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Rock The Vote Cambodia: Hun Sen Again

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 08.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Hun Sen, Cambodia, The Giving Life, Cambodia People's Party, Election, Khmer Rouge, Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

I woke up in Phnom Penh one morning a few weeks ago to a loudspeaker blasting high pitched Khmer music and the sound of a voice repeating the same phr...

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`Killing Fields' Survivor Dith Pran Dies

AP | RICHARD PYLE | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Dith Pran, Cambodia, Killing Fields, Cambodian Journalist, Khmer Rouge, Media News

NEW YORK — Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer ...

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Former Indonesian Dictator Suharto Dies

AP | ANTHONY DEUTSCH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Indonesia, Suharto, Dictator Suharto, Suharto Dead, Suharto Dies, Indonesian Dictator Suharto, Khmer Rouge, Politics News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding...

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Cambodian Police Block Mia Farrow

AP | KER MUNTHIT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mia Farrow, Mia Farrow Cambodia, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Entertainment News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian police blocked Mia Farrow from holding a genocide memorial ceremony Sunday at a Khmer Rouge prison, at one poin...

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Carlson: Obama Campaign's Targeting Of Young Voters Has "Khmer Rouge Quality To It"

Media Matters For America | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Matt Lewis, Bill Press, Barack Obama, Tucker Carlson, Khmer Rouge, Media News

On the October 10 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, while discussing the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and its targeting of young voters ...

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