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Christian Daily International on MSN1d
Killing Fields, Living Fields: New edition of classic book marks 50 years since fall of Phnom Penh and rise of Khmer Rouge
As Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of its capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, a final edition of a ...
Council on Foreign Relations2d
Cambodia’s Descent Into a Death Spiral: Fifty Years On
The legacy of atrocity crimes that took the lives of millions of Cambodians during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, and the ...
Al Jazeera on MSN2d
Fifty years after fall of Phnom Penh, history weighs on Cambodian politics
The Khmer Rouge rise to power and overthrow are foundational to Cambodian People’s Party legitimacy, but memories fade.
France 24 on MSN14h
Killing fields, 50 years on: How the Khmer Rouge's legacy still divides Cambodia
On April 17,1975, a hardline Communist command led by Pol Pot swept into Phnom Penh and overthrew the US-backed military government of General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest ...
KTBS 31d
Silent killing fields 50 years on from Khmer Rouge atrocities
Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its ...
Long Beach’s Cambodian community gathers to commemorate 50th anniversary of Cambodian Genocide
Long Beach became a second home for Cambodians in the early 1980s – when hundreds of thousands of refugees flocked to the ...
The Diplomat19h
Xi Jinping Declares China’s ‘New Era’ With Cambodia
In Cambodia, there was also a dire need to end the uncertainty over funding. Phnom Penh has developed a heavy reliance on ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN3d
Lessons in horror with Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal
Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went ...
UCA News1d
Pol Pot remembered 50 years after Cambodia fell to Khmer Rouge
Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi ...
China's Xi Jinping arrives in Cambodia to wrap up 3-nation Southeast Asia tour
The visit, Xi's first since 2016, will conclude a three-nation Southeast Asian tour that included stops in Vietnam and ...
The Lowell Sun on MSN1d
Lori Trahan reintroduces bill to recognize Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day
On the 50th anniversary of the fall of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, and the start of one of the worst genocides of ...
The Japan Times1d
Khmer Rouge anniversary marked, but without public prayers
Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its ...