Only Angkor Wat remained in use ... conservancy grounds—his father was buildings superintendent until the Khmer Rouge executed him in 1976—and these days earns a mere $10 a month.

When the first cars started arriving, speakers blasted ancient ensemble music and broadcast monks’ chants from a pavilion ...

As Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of its capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, a final edition of a ...

Chiara Goia The ruins at Angkor Wat have been left pretty much as they ... Unexploded mines still lie buried here—the result of Khmer Rouge efforts to protect their mountain redoubt from assault.

Cambodia marked the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls The Khmer Rouge were initially given a cautious ...

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls. On April 17 ...

On April 17, 1975, soldiers of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge rolled into the capital astride tanks, toppling the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol and starting a four-year communist government.

Under the Khmer Rouge, more than 1.7 million Cambodians, roughly a quarter of the population, were killed by execution, torture and starvation between 1975 and 1979 before the regime was overthrown.