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- Chinese senior CPC official visits Cambodia
Cambodian PM to visit France in July Cambodian ruling party CPP marks 58th anniversary Cambodia FM: Thailand threatens Cambodia and UNESCO over Preah Vihear temple Cambodia becomes 94th member of International Renewable Energy Agency Phnom Penh ties
- Thai PM to meet UN chief after his Burma visit
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is ready to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon who will be in transit from Rangoon to New York late Saturday. Abhisit said the meeting will be about ties between Asean grouping, United Nations, Burma and Thai-Cambodia
- Cambodia's torture prison survivors testify at tribunal
In Cambodia, evidence is being heard against the former head of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, Comrade Duch. Only a handful of prisoners survived Tuol Sleng, during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule. Yesterday, a former child survivor, now aged 39,
- The Hague institute teaches how to investigate genocide
Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Darfur are place names that have become emblematic of man's inhumanity. The process of bringing the perpetrators of mass killings to justice can often take a decade or more. It begins with the efforts of those who
- Child survivor of Khmer prison weeps at trial
(AP)
AP - A man who was a child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center 30 years ago testified Thursday at the trial of the facility's commander that he hid under a pile of clothes to escape a final purge of inmates before Vietnamese troops ended the regime's reign of terror.
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Following a five-year struggle, communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; over 1 million displaced people died from execution or enforced hardships. A 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside and touched off 13 years of fighting. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy, as did the rapid diminishment of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1990s. A coalition government, formed after national elections in 1998, brought renewed political stability and the surrender of remaining Khmer Rouge forces.
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