On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country's ...

The Khmer Rouge came to power on a wave of disillusionment, corruption, civil war and rural resentment. Years of American bombing, the 1970 U.S.-backed coup that ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and ...

Fifty years on, the Khmer Rouge’s legacy continues to shape Cambodia: politically, socially, economically and emotionally ...

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while trying to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that was once a battlefield between government forces and Khmer Rouge soldiers, officials said.

The regime may be long gone, but its legacy lives on in the institutions, behaviors, and fears that continue to shape Cambodia today.